newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (08/08/83)
No. of Avg. Rank Articles Length Group (# of different contributors) 1 177 22 net.unix-wizards (99) 2 142 13 net.jokes (99) 3 125 25 net.flame (80) 4 100 20 net.micro (51) 5 99 30 net.news (45) 6 97 16 net.wanted (61) 7 85 17 net.misc (57) 8 65 23 net.general (37) 9 62 57 net.religion (40) 10 58 27 net.auto (42) 11 58 18 net.women (42) 12 56 33 net.politics (38) 13 54 18 net.sf-lovers (39) 14 49 15 net.sport.baseball (26) 15 43 28 net.singles (36) 16 43 22 net.micro.cpm (29) 17 43 16 net.movies (31) 18 40 30 net.audio (20) 19 39 15 net.followup (25) 20 35 26 net.micro.pc (26) 21 34 13 net.startrek (23) 22 33 24 net.music (25) 23 30 29 net.rec.bridge (13) 24 29 79 net.philosophy (9) 25 28 18 net.nlang (25)
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (08/24/83)
No. of Avg. Rank Articles Length Group (# of different contributors) 1 251 22 net.auto (80) 2 238 26 net.flame (117) 3 153 16 net.misc (103) 4 132 21 net.women (83) 5 128 18 net.jokes (91) 6 125 19 net.unix-wizards (95) 7 93 44 net.philosophy (22) 8 92 31 net.politics (46) 9 91 26 net.tv (53) 10 84 13 net.wanted (76) 11 82 11 net.singles (67) 12 72 62 net.religion (41) 13 72 20 net.followup (58) 14 71 17 net.micro (46) 15 68 26 net.cog-eng (39) 16 65 20 net.lang.c (44) 17 64 19 net.movies (50) 18 61 17 net.sf-lovers (47) 19 57 23 net.math (39) 20 55 15 net.general (51) 21 53 15 net.games.trivia (37) 22 49 25 net.music (32) 23 46 26 net.rec.bridge (23) 24 43 13 net.nlang (37) 25 40 20 net.news.group (29)
kolstad@parsec.UUCP (08/29/83)
#R:rlgvax:-104400:parsec:39100003:000:549 parsec!kolstad Aug 28 16:41:00 1983 Am I the only one concerned that only 5-10% of the articles listed here are in any way technically related? I worry that major links will soon realize that automobiles, flaming, miscellaneous, woman, jokes, philosophy, politics, and television are really not what they want to spend their phone bills on. I am pleased to see some articles in the unix category but am beginning to be overwhelmed by the amount of rather trivial news being submitted. Mail to me will be summarized to the net in a couple weeks... Rob Lover of news, but...
kolstad@parsec.UUCP (09/16/83)
#R:rlgvax:-113300:parsec:39100004:000:294 parsec!kolstad Sep 16 00:07:00 1983 I consider about 14% of the articles of the top 25 newsgroups to be of useful technical nature. That's about 1/7th. Anyone else think that we're getting a little top heavy on things like flaming, television, miscellaneous, gender wars, dating, politics, automobiles, and religion? Rob
shebs@utah-cs.UUCP (Stanley Shebs) (09/18/83)
So who cares if 14% of the articles are technical? Some of us have more on our minds than the C calling conventions and strange bugs in UN*X! stan the l.h. utah-cs!shebs
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (09/22/83)
o (1.4) 13 69 14 net.wanted (1.2) 14 66 15 net.news (1.5) 15 63 25 net.music (1.4) 16 59 17 net.singles (1.2) 17 57 83 net.religion (2.0) 18 45 52 net.news.group (1.6) 19 45 17 net.general (1.3) 20 44 21 net.lang.c (1.3) 21 44 15 net.sf-lovers (1.3) 22 42 12 net.movies (1.0) 23 38 20 net.audio (1.4) 24 38 16 net.sport.football (1.7) 25 33 24 net.aviation (1.4)
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (09/25/83)
Darn. Unfortunately we will no longer know who is the top news submitter or
site, etc. as all 3 of those latest articles had the first 512 bytes sheared
off. I sure hope that people start installing that fix. It is too bad that
there is no information in the headers about which news connections are
batched, as that is where the bug is. I have been collecting records of
paths whenever I see a crunched article but I am not sure if it will ever
converge to the point of telling which site(s) are guilty.
Here was the path (reversed):
>To: princeton!achilles!ulysses!mhuxl!mhuxj!mhuxi!houxm!hogpc!houti!ariel!vax135!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!seismo!rlgvax!newsstats
William L. Sebok {allegra,cbosgd,kpno,decvax,ihnp4}!astrovax!wlsnewsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (10/08/83)
No. of Avg. % of Rank Articles Length Total Group (Articles per contributor) 1 257 27 7.2% net.flame (2.0) 2 239 17 6.7% net.movies (1.8) 3 189 26 5.3% net.unix-wizards (1.3) 4 147 27 4.1% net.jokes (1.4) 5 141 16 3.9% net.followup (1.5) 6 137 23 3.8% net.women (1.7) 7 110 21 3.1% net.micro (1.4) 8 108 19 3.0% net.audio (1.7) 9 104 20 2.9% net.sf-lovers (1.6) 10 103 19 2.9% net.tv (1.9) 11 100 16 2.8% net.music (1.5) 12 93 15 2.6% net.wanted (1.2) 13 81 28 2.3% net.misc (1.2) 14 69 29 1.9% net.politics (1.4) 15 66 20 1.8% net.singles (1.3) 16 61 37 1.7% net.games.frp (2.2) 17 59 25 1.6% net.physics (1.3) 18 56 21 1.6% net.math (1.4) 19 55 23 1.5% net.auto (1.3) 20 54 25 1.5% net.ham-radio (2.8) 21 52 21 1.4% net.cooks (1.2) 22 52 21 1.4% net.micro.pc (1.4) 23 50 28 1.4% net.ai (1.2) 24 48 21 1.3% net.nlang (1.3) 25 48 16 1.3% net.general (1.0)
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (10/22/83)
No. of Avg. % of Rank Articles Length Total Group (Articles per contributor) 1 264 18 10.0% net.jokes (1.7) 2 146 18 5.5% net.movies (1.5) 3 123 21 4.7% net.flame (1.6) 4 104 25 4.0% net.unix-wizards (1.4) 5 94 15 3.6% net.wanted (1.2) 6 80 18 3.0% net.sf-lovers (1.8) 7 77 20 2.9% net.misc (1.2) 8 74 25 2.8% net.lang.c (1.5) 9 74 21 2.8% net.audio (1.5) 10 74 18 2.8% net.micro (1.6) 11 73 19 2.8% net.followup (1.2) 12 62 21 2.4% net.music (1.5) 13 57 28 2.2% net.games.frp (1.7) 14 56 16 2.1% net.nlang (1.3) 15 53 28 2.0% net.general (1.3) 16 51 15 1.9% net.auto (1.2) 17 49 22 1.9% net.math (1.3) 18 48 22 1.8% net.cooks (1.3) 19 44 23 1.7% net.med (1.3) 20 44 19 1.7% net.women (1.3) 21 41 55 1.6% net.politics (1.1) 22 38 74 1.4% net.religion (1.5) 23 38 13 1.4% net.tv (1.1) 24 38 12 1.4% net.sport.baseball (1.3) 25 35 26 1.3% net.physics (1.5)
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (11/08/83)
No. of Avg. % of Rank Articles Length Total Group (Articles per contributor) 1 227 24 7.4% net.politics (2.3) 2 209 16 6.8% net.jokes (1.7) 3 186 25 6.1% net.flame (2.0) 4 96 19 3.1% net.micro (1.6) 5 86 24 2.8% net.unix-wizards (1.2) 6 85 18 2.8% net.movies (1.3) 7 83 12 2.7% net.wanted (1.1) 8 71 19 2.3% net.followup (1.2) 9 69 44 2.3% net.religion (1.6) 10 66 40 2.2% net.games.frp (2.0) 11 64 20 2.1% net.misc (1.3) 12 60 22 2.0% net.physics (1.8) 13 49 23 1.6% net.cog-eng (1.4) 14 49 18 1.6% net.sf-lovers (1.2) 15 46 25 1.5% net.lang.c (1.2) 16 46 22 1.5% net.jokes.d (1.4) 17 46 16 1.5% net.audio (1.5) 18 46 16 1.5% net.micro.pc (1.4) 19 45 22 1.5% net.motss (1.7) 20 44 19 1.4% net.games.emp (2.4) 21 44 18 1.4% net.dcom (1.5) 22 43 29 1.4% net.general (1.1) 23 43 23 1.4% net.space (1.7) 24 42 22 1.4% net.ai (1.6) 25 40 27 1.3% net.cooks (1.1)
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (11/29/83)
No. of Avg. % of Rank Articles Length Total Group (Articles per contributor) 1 271 18 8.8% net.jokes (1.8) 2 244 31 7.9% net.politics (2.4) 3 140 28 4.6% net.flame (1.6) 4 122 34 4.0% net.misc (1.4) 5 112 37 3.6% net.unix-wizards (1.4) 6 102 21 3.3% net.micro (1.5) 7 93 18 3.0% net.tv (1.6) 8 87 21 2.8% net.followup (1.4) 9 87 15 2.8% net.wanted (1.2) 10 82 19 2.7% net.music (1.3) 11 78 37 2.5% net.religion (1.8) 12 65 21 2.1% net.cooks (1.4) 13 63 24 2.1% net.singles (1.4) 14 55 17 1.8% net.news.group (1.4) 15 50 22 1.6% net.sf-lovers (1.5) 16 44 14 1.4% net.micro.pc (1.7) 17 43 17 1.4% net.jokes.d (1.3) 18 42 17 1.4% net.kids (1.6) 19 40 25 1.3% net.tv.da (1.3) 20 39 23 1.3% net.motss (2.0) 21 38 17 1.2% net.lang (1.3) 22 37 23 1.2% net.nlang (1.2) 23 37 13 1.2% net.unix (1.4) 24 36 31 1.2% net.mail (1.4) 25 36 17 1.2% net.audio (1.3)
newsstats@rlgvax.UUCP (12/23/83)
No. of Avg. % of Rank Articles Length Total Group (Articles per contributor) 1 287 21 7.9% net.jokes (1.7) 2 190 22 5.2% net.flame (1.8) 3 171 26 4.7% net.politics (1.9) 4 143 19 3.9% net.followup (1.5) 5 121 18 3.3% net.micro (1.8) 6 112 38 3.1% net.religion (2.2) 7 109 25 3.0% net.unix-wizards (1.3) 8 108 23 3.0% net.music (1.6) 9 106 13 2.9% net.wanted (1.1) 10 100 24 2.7% net.singles (1.6) 11 95 19 2.6% net.news.group (1.5) 12 86 23 2.4% net.misc (1.3) 13 80 26 2.2% net.women (1.4) 14 77 17 2.1% net.auto (1.3) 15 76 14 2.1% net.sf-lovers (1.3) 16 73 17 2.0% net.audio (1.4) 17 64 17 1.8% net.cooks (1.1) 18 55 26 1.5% net.unix (1.3) 19 55 24 1.5% net.micro.pc (1.6) 20 53 25 1.5% net.lang.c (1.2) 21 49 18 1.3% net.general (1.1) 22 48 25 1.3% net.lang (1.4) 23 45 16 1.2% net.movies (1.2) 24 44 23 1.2% net.sport.football (1.8) 25 44 13 1.2% net.columbia (1.5)