trb (08/03/82)
Here it is, the information you've all been waiting for! The number of articles that have passed thru floyd's spooled news directory! Now you can tell your friends which groups are most commonly posted to. (Floyd has been getting netnews since about the beginning of 1982, the numbers will not, of course, be the same as the ones for your system, but they should be proportional. Number of articles to net.auto.highway will probably be less.) I have affixed asterisks to the groups which might be construed as work related. Don't bug me about my choices, I chose net.space and net.ham-radio as being work related, net.music and net.jokes as not, though if you were a comedian or a violinist... I summed up the number of articles posted to the top 29, and found that 9171 were work related and 4017 were not. Better than 2 to 1 work related. I think that's pretty good (for what my professional opinion is worth). You might ask "why 29?" Well, I asked the "head" program for the first 30 lines and it gave me 29. A. C. Neilsen need not worry about competition from me, Andy Tannenbaum Bell Labs Whippany, NJ (201) 386-6491 ----- 1136 net.unix-wiza* 1089 net.general* 968 fa.info-cpm* 840 net.movies 828 net.space* 808 net.misc* 803 net.jokes 641 net.cooks 607 fa.info-vax* 466 net.news* 452 net.music 431 btl.general* 350 net.games.rog 344 net.micro* 306 net.followup* 295 net.news.b* 284 net.news.grou* 275 net.jokes.q 259 net.games.tri 236 net.test* 230 fa.info-terms* 220 net.nlang* 212 net.columbia* 210 net.games 195 net.math* 187 net.records 184 net.ham-radio* 168 net.works* 164 fa.editor-p*