ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) (02/05/91)
Here is the comp.os.* data for January.
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)
+-- 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
128 44000 975 84% 497 824.0 12% 0.03 3.0% comp.os.msdos.programmer
133 44000 970 90% 550 1644.6 1% 0.06 3.0% comp.os.minix
151 42000 927 90% 1316 2471.9 4% 0.09 2.9% comp.os.vms
173 40000 872 83% 165 279.4 8% 0.01 2.7% comp.os.msdos.misc
174 39000 868 84% 120 151.4 13% 0.01 2.7% comp.os.msdos.apps
208 35000 770 90% 139 555.9 2% 0.02 2.4% comp.os.misc
211 35000 762 85% 27 43.4 4% 0.00 2.3% comp.os.mach
232 33000 725 89% 27 77.4 0% 0.00 2.2% comp.os.research
379 22000 494 89% 171 244.1 5% 0.02 1.5% comp.os.cpm
391 22000 483 89% 87 132.4 12% 0.01 1.5% comp.os.os9
460 19000 408 81% 128 185.4 14% 0.01 1.3% comp.os.os2.misc
525 16000 341 81% 48 78.9 9% 0.01 1.1% comp.os.os2.programmer
535 15000 331 81% 8 17.2 25% 0.00 1.0% comp.os.rsts
545 14000 318 79% 7 9.0 57% 0.00 1.0% comp.os.os2.apps
547 14000 317 88% 8 8.8 0% 0.00 1.0% comp.os.xinu
575 13000 284 51% 16 18.1 33% 0.00 0.9% comp.os.os2
616 11000 239 82% 9 18.1 0% 0.00 0.7% comp.os.aos
644 9500 209 69% 9 13.7 0% 0.00 0.6% comp.os.cpm.amethyst