Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!inesc!unl!unl!jpc From: jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Arbitron ratings for March Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 10:32:02 GMT References: <9573@star.cs.vu.nl> Sender: news@fct.unl.pt (USENET News System) Organization: Universidade Nova de Lisboa -- Lisbon, Portugal Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl's message of 5 Apr 91 20:53:55 GMT In article <9573@star.cs.vu.nl> ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum) writes: > > How about this as an argument against splitting the newsgroup. Here are > the March Arbitron figures. If there are two newsgroups, we won't know > how many readers there are. For MS-DOS, it is somewhere between 50,000 > and 135,000, but it is impossible to tell how many. 50000, everybody posts the queries in the wrong places, so to find bits of info, I have to read all the comp.os.msdos groups. Besides, that's irrelevant, we can count the readers of comp.os.minix as the "good" readers "must" read comp.os.minix. Wer can expect less than about 5% of readers reading only comp.os.minix. -- Jose Pedro T. Pina Coelho | BITNET/Internet: jpc@fct.unl.pt Rua Jau N 1, 2 Dto | UUCP: ...!mcsun!unl!jpc 1300 Lisboa, PORTUGAL | Home phone: (+351) (1) 640767 - If all men were brothers, would you let one marry your sister ?