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From: spike@world.std.com (Joe Ilacqua)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: America on Line
Message-ID: <1990Jan20.230734.735@world.std.com>
Date: 20 Jan 90 23:07:34 GMT
References: <lbotez@PRO-SOL.CTS.COM> <9001171406.AA10465@apple.com> <37905@apple.Apple.COM>
Organization: Software Tool & Die
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In article <37905@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes:
<Murph:  This internet which is supposedly "the user community at large" is the
<same group that generated 120 votes on a new Apple II technical group?  Get
<real.  There are more Apple II people on America Online than are on here, with
<little doubt.

	From _USENET READERSHIP SUMMARY REPORT for Dec 89_:

OVERALL SUMMARY:
                             This            Estimated
                            Sample         for entire net
Sites:                      738                19980
Fraction reporting:        3.69%                 100%
Users with accounts:     137865              3732000
Netreaders:               27021               731000
[...]
       +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
       |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
       |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
       |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
       |     |     |      |     +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
[...]
4 17000   716   97%   827 1199.0     1%  0.13    2.6%  comp.sys.apple
[...]
	(See the monthly posting in "news.list" get an idea of
how these numbers are found)

	This does not mean America Online doesn't have more users, but
it shows there are at least more than 120 readers of comp.sys.apple.

->Spike
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