[comp.sys.acorn] TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST

mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) (02/05/91)

reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:
> TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
> A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
> them.
[...]
      #readers     %sites                      cost
      (estd.)      receiving    kb/month    $/month/reader
         v            v            v            v
>   1   6600   145   47%  2116  7471.3     0%  0.94   0.4%  bionet.molbio.genba
>   2  81000  1788   62%   402 29103.5     1%  0.39   5.5%  alt.sex.pictures
>   3  22000   479   78%  1917  5269.8     4%  0.32   1.5%  talk.abortion
>   4  22000   487   79%  1513  4789.3    14%  0.30   1.5%  talk.religion.misc
>   5  12000   258   62%   315  2773.3    22%  0.25   0.8%  comp.sys.acorn
                ^           ^              ^           ^
             #readers     msgs            %ge        %ge of
             (sample)    /month         crossposts  Usenetters
                                                     reading

This is what happens when you post large binaries to a discussion-only group
concerning an obscure computer.

If people hadn't been holding back with the binaries for the last few weeks,
it would have been even worse.

The next thing which happens is that sites see comp.sys.acorn at the top of
this list, and stop propagating it.

So, how's that vote for comp.binaries.acorn coming?


mathew.
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