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From: rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Daily news volume disagrees w/uunet stats
Summary: how big is a block
Message-ID: <60800@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 17 Jul 89 03:30:56 GMT
References: <123@uucs1.UUCP> <1989Jul10.223958.28264@fxgrp.fx.com> <128@uucs1.UUCP>
Organization: UUNET Communications Services, Falls Church, VA
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Counting partially filled blocks is useless since there are
so many different block sizes. However, here are the
numbers including headers.

---rick

35031 articles, totalling 63.433438 Mbytes (77.903232 including headers),
were submitted from 4325 different Usenet sites by 10461 different
users to 553 different newsgroups for an average of 4.530960 Mbytes
(5.564517 including headers) per day.

				  Article	  	  Total
	Category	Count	  Mbytes	Percent	  Mbytes
	comp		  10034	 24.611183	 38%	 28.753679
	rec		  12349	 16.914505	 26%	 21.995065
	soc		   5186	  8.785193	 13%	 11.078640
	talk		   3509	  6.955401	 10%	  8.567632
	misc		   2547	  3.734556	  5%	  4.816018
	alt		   2203	  3.528812	  5%	  4.486699
	sci		   1721	  3.361460	  5%	  4.098219
	news		    802	  1.374312	  2%	  1.729883
	gnu		    472	  1.202586	  1%	  1.388820
	unix-pc		    128	  0.322350	  0%	  0.379225
	bionet		    119	  0.242983	  0%	  0.295535
	pubnet		     10	  0.041490	  0%	  0.045668
	u3b		      4	  0.007387	  0%	  0.008814