johnr@oceania.UUCP (John Robison) (05/15/91)
Just FYI!! No wonder this group gets 75++ postings per day.
See news.groups for more info and for issues about splitting
comp.sys.next. Please send all replys to /dev/null.
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
them.
+-- 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
34 46000 1037 87% 1865 3637.2 5% 0.13 3.4% comp.sys.next
^^^^^^ ^^^^
>> Guess its more than our $0.02 !!
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
them.
The above figures put comp.sys.next at 18th in this list!!
>> A small family with lots to say!!
Later,
John
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