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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Statistics regarding commercial sites on Usenet
Message-ID: <1989Jun13.064138.14675@twwells.com>
Date: 13 Jun 89 06:41:38 GMT
Organization: None, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Lines: 12

I did a bit of counting this evening. I took all the #O lines from
my mail maps, did a sort -u, and then classified them as
commercial and noncommercial. The classification had to be kind of
rough, since it was in many cases difficult or impossible to tell
the difference; however, the results are unambiguous:

	3940    70% commercial names
	1727    30% noncommercial names

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