Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!shelby!leland.Stanford.EDU!jessica.stanford.edu!bard From: bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm Subject: c.s.a.datacomm - bottom of the barrel. Message-ID: <1991Mar3.173028.9049@leland.Stanford.EDU> Date: 3 Mar 91 17:30:28 GMT Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News) Organization: Academic Information Resources, Stanford University Lines: 68 Well, c.s.a.datacomm is second-to-last for both popularity and propagation. comp.unix.amiga is down there also. Ah well. See news.lists for more info. Xref: leland.Stanford.EDU news.lists:298 news.groups:7937 Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (FEB 91) Message-ID: <1991Mar3.142519.19888@pa.dec.com> BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- 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 [...] 730 1300 29 13% 39 65.5 8% 0.01 0.1% talk.bizarre.rabbit 731 1300 28 11% 1 1.0 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.sys.amiga.datacom 732 1000 22 22% 34 95.1 6% 0.04 0.1% trial.soc.culture.czechoslovak Too bad we didn't beat out talk.bizarre.rabbit! Xref: leland.Stanford.EDU news.lists:299 news.groups:7938 Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION (FEB 91) Message-ID: <1991Mar3.142547.19962@pa.dec.com> BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PROPAGATION A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- 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 713 8300 180 26% 261 370.8 2% 0.02 0.6% rec.music.video 714 7300 158 26% 1 1.2 100% 0.00 0.5% comp.sys.amiga.unix ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ !!! Only 26% of the sites carry it with 100% crossposting? This has to change... [...] 730 4900 106 11% 1 0.9 100% 0.00 0.3% rec.food 731 1300 28 11% 1 1.0 0% 0.00 0.1% comp.sys.amiga.datacom 732 2400 52 9% 1 2.2 100% 0.00 0.2% alt.fan.dice-man Of course, this is the same survey that said that comp.sys.next had 42000 readers worldwide. That's a giggler. A demain, Dave Hopper | /// Anthro/CS Creep | Academic Info Resouces, Stanford |__ /// | Macincrap/UNIX Consultant bard@jessica. |\\\/// Wouldn't it be fun | Stanford.EDU | \XX/ to dose Barb Bush? | All typos/opinions are my own ;-)