lncjb@cc.newcastle.edu.au (02/14/91)
I recently went exploring among the 650 or so newsgroups we get at my site, and to my surprise, news.list actually does give stats on _every_ newsgroup once in a while (Re: my "How many people actual read this newsgroup,,," posting a while ago). Here's a bit I chopped out of a recent article,,, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ USENET readership report for Jan 91. +-- Popularity out of 706 newsgroups | +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage | | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders | | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V V 348 24000 535 89% 327 439.8 3% 0.03 1.6% comp.sys.cbm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ }`oo'{ `' Chris "Polar" Baird Impoverished BSc Undergrad @ Newcastle Uni (OZ!) Temp addr: LNCJB@cc.newcastle.edu.au