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. -- Internet: mathew@mantis.co.uk / mathew%mantis.co.uk@ukc.ac.uk UUCP: mathew@mantis.UUCP / ...!mcsun!ukc!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew If you know anything significant about ISDN, please mail me...