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From: lncjb@cc.newcastle.edu.au
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: "How many people read this newsgroup,,," Updater
Message-ID: <8889.27ba6788@cc.newcastle.edu.au>
Date: 14 Feb 91 00:33:43 GMT
Organization: University of Newcastle
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I recently went exploring among the 650 or so newsgroups we get at my site,
	and to my surprise, news.list actually does give stats on _every_
	newsgroup once in a while (Re: my "How many people actual read this
	newsgroup,,," posting a while ago). 

Here's a bit I chopped out of a recent article,,,

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		USENET readership report for Jan 91.

  +-- Popularity out of 706 newsgroups
  |     +-- 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 newsrders
  |     |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
  V     V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
348  24000   535   89%   327   439.8     3%  0.03   1.6%  comp.sys.cbm
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            Chris "Polar" Baird
Impoverished BSc Undergrad @ Newcastle Uni (OZ!)
Temp addr: LNCJB@cc.newcastle.edu.au