TELECOM Moderator <telecom@eecs.nwu.edu> (08/10/90)
I thought some of you would find the following information quite
interesting. In recent months, comp.dcom.telecom moved up in the
monthly ratings from 142nd place to 101st place (out of over 600
newsgroups listed).
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+-- 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 newsreaders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
101 32000 784 91% 766 1564.1 0% 0.07 3.3% comp.dcom.telecom
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610 900 22 8% 5 4.7 0% 0.00 0.0% alt.fan.dice-man
611 770 19 16% 8 10.3 0% 0.00 0.0% rec.sport.snowboarding
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Undoubtedly, this increase to 32,000 readers of each issue is due in
large part to the quality of messages you all send me for publicaiton
each day, and for that, I say thanks. Of course, the figures above are
only for Usenet, and do not include the several hundred names on the
mailing list; the several independent BBS' which post TELECOM Digest
for their readers; the FIDO or Bitnet readers, or the subscribers via
MCI Mail, ATT Mail, Net Exchange and Compuserve (where the Digest goes
only to email boxes and not the general Compuserve community.)
For next: IBM employees can now receive TELECOM Digest via an
exploder address set up to receive/redistribute the Digest at ibm.com
locations. For information, or to be added to the list, contact David
Singer <singer@ibm.com>. (This is NOT the exploder address!)
Another redistribution point has been started in Korea. For
information on this contact Taeha Park <postmaster@kum.kaist.ac.kr>
Two special issues this weekend: Len Rose has kindly supplied us with
a copy of his formal indictment. It is large, with many counts and
allegations by the government, and will require an entire issue of the
Digest. If Jim Thomas supplies any commentary (hint! hint!) it will be
included. Don Kimberlin has sent a lengthy essay on ship-to-shore
type radio services, and it will also require an entire issue. Both of
these will be transmitted Saturday afternoon or evening.
Patrick Townson