Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!sun-barr!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ficc!korenek From: korenek@ficc.uu.net (Gary Korenek) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Statistics regarding commercial sites on Usenet Summary: My .02 cents worth Message-ID: <4557@ficc.uu.net> Date: 14 Jun 89 22:20:31 GMT References: <1989Jun13.064138.14675@twwells.com> <11661@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> Reply-To: korenek@.UUCP (Gary Korenek) Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corp., Sugar Land, Texas Lines: 38 In article msmith@topaz.rutgers.edu (Mark Robert Smith) writes: >In article <11661@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> andys@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes: > >> In article <1989Jun13.064138.14675@twwells.com>, bill@twwells (T. William Wells) writes: > >> > 3940 70% commercial names >> > 1727 30% noncommercial names > > >> This may understate it... > >> Andy Sherman/AT&T Bell Laboratories/Murray Hill, NJ *NEW ADDRESS* > >Ditto the other way. Rutgers has only one machine in it's domain in >the maps (rutgers.edu), but there are easily 100 machines (including >all of the suns using NFS for news) that have access to news. > >Mark 1) I don't read news through my company's glasses, I read it for pleasure (and to learn... to me that's pleasure!) 2) Our site (ficc) shows up as commercial, with 30 individuals that are 'casual' readers (<---my guess here). Of course, we have maybe 3 'net gurus' here, but it's mostly a recreational readership. 3) The point: I'll bet there are lots of people out there in net land like me that simply take the net for what we get from it: it's fun, interesting, educational, unpredictable. A marvel. However, our access to the net is through our employer. Although the number of site names that show up as buisness- oriented may outnumber names that show up as individual- oriented, my bet is there are far more recreational net-reading individuals than buisness-types. -- Gary Korenek (713)274-5357 korenek@ficc.uu.net Ferranti Int'l Controls Corp. PO Box 5012 Sugar Land, Texas 77487-5012