spaf@gatech.UUCP (Gene Spafford) (12/12/83)
I can't say exactly how many people have access to USENET, but I can
make a rough estimate. Our site (GaTech) has mail routing info for
over 2060 sites. That doesn't take into account all of the "hidden"
sites which are reached through gateway machines, and it includes sites
which get mail but not news. Taking that into account, assume, on the
average, 5 people at each site get news. That means at least 10k people
out there, and I expect that that is a very low figure. Perhaps 15
people per site, on the average, might be more accurate, in which case
we have over 30k readers.
"It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it."
--
Off the Wall of Gene Spafford
School of ICS, Georgia Tech, Atlanta GA 30332
CSNet: Spaf @ GATech ARPA: Spaf.GATech @ CSNet-Relay
uucp: ...!{akgua,allegra,rlgvax,sb1,unmvax,ulysses,ut-sally}!gatech!spaf