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From: cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.datacomm
Subject: Re: c.s.a.datacomm - bottom of the barrel.
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Date: 5 Mar 91 04:25:22 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.173028.9049@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:
>
(Regarding the BOTTOM 20 Usenet newsgroups, which the
following posting claims include c.s.a.datacom and c.s.a.unix...)

>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.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  herein lie the errors...

>        +-- 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
>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...
>
>Of course, this is the same survey that said that comp.sys.next had 42000
>readers worldwide.  That's a giggler.
>

Alas, we have befallen a Gross Error of Penultimate Magnitude.
To paraphrase Python's Book Shop sketch:

"No, that's comp.sys.amiga.datacom with _one_ 'm', the
nonofficial and unsupported newsgroup."

It should come as no surprise to readers herein that
comp.sys.amiga.datacomm with _two_ m's receives more than one
kilobyte of interplay per month.  I'm using up my fair share of
it in this single message.   And I've already used up our
alleged one message per month.  Good thing I'm in c.s.a.d with
two m's.

Ditto for comp.sys.amiga.unix.  This group shouldn't exist, some
nitwit jumped the gun and continues to pollute the net with
bogus newsgroups.  For Amiga Unix news, complete with a lot of
involvement by the Commodore Unix team, check out
comp.unix.amiga, the REAL Amiga Unix group.  If you receive
c.s.a.unix, stop. 


>A demain,
>Dave Hopper      |     /// Anthro/CS Creep  | Academic Info Resouces, Stanford

make that two demains...

Thom Cleland
tcleland@ucsd.edu