breuel@h-sc1.UUCP (thomas breuel) (11/20/85)
> >The following statistics were derived from seismo's top 25 groups numbers: > > Group Avg. rank by > > Article Size Tot. Traffic > >net.sources.mac 14.4 1 *** > >net.sources 6.2 2 > >net.micro.mac 1.4 4 *** > > > The ranking of net.*.mac groups is the major reason many of the backbone > site administrators are considering dropping these groups. This decision This is silly. On our site, net.news.group ranks first, by total traffic and, even, by traffic corrected for crosspostings. Furthermore, net.sources.mac and net.micro.mac account for only a small fraction of total net traffic. These newsgroups are certainly the wrong place to start pruning. Start deleting net.music, net.flame, &c if you MUST start somewhere. Thomas. PS: rst@tardis has recently posted pretty complete statistics on usenet traffic. I don't know how seismo's numbers came about, but they are irreconcilable with net traffic on Harvard machines. I know that rst's numbers are accurate and recent, so...