cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) (03/05/91)
Mark de Loura thoughtfully posted the following memo regarding USENET
readership for Feb 91. Although sci.virtual-worlds cannot hope to
compete with alt.sex for popularity, it is refreshing to see so many
accesses and to learn that we far exceed readership of the Czech
conference. Here's to us, with hopes that we will one day reach the
heights of USENET stardom...
Article 602 of news.lists:
From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Subject: USENET Readership report for Feb 91
Date: 3 Mar 91 14:26:17 GMT
Organization: DEC Western Research Laboratory
This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Feb 91.
Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.
+-- 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
1 170000 3704 76% 2169 4572.5 11% 0.04 12.1% alt.sex
2 170000 3621 90% 97 299.6 0% 0.00 11.8% rec.humor.funny
3 150000 3299 92% 397 902.3 10% 0.01 10.8% misc.jobs.offered
4 130000 2885 90% 1032 1230.8 36% 0.02 9.4% misc.forsale
5 120000 2612 92% 31 176.5 3% 0.00 8.5% news.announce.conferen
ces
6 120000 2604 88% 1693 3235.3 9% 0.04 8.5% rec.humor
7 100000 2267 91% 516 978.3 16% 0.02 7.4% comp.graphics
8 100000 2249 93% 799 1456.8 11% 0.02 7.4% news.groups
9 100000 2219 81% 20 337.5 0% 0.00 7.3% rec.arts.erotica
10 98000 2140 93% 1008 1867.6 11% 0.03 7.0% comp.lang.c
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340 24000 518 80% 94 182.4 0% 0.01 1.7% sci.virtual-worlds
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730 1300 29 13% 39 65.5 8% 0.01 0.1% talk.bizarre.rabbit
731 1300 28 11% 1 1.0 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.sys.amiga.datacom
732 1000 22 22% 34 95.1 6% 0.04 0.1% trial.soc.culture.czec
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