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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: surprising fact about net.jokes
Message-ID: <2087@glacier.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 6-Dec-85 11:32:06 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  6 11:32:06 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 7-Dec-85 20:47:55 EST
Organization: Stanford University, Computer Systems Lab
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For the past few months I have been working on a back-burner project
to collect and combine readership statistics for SF Bay Area 
netnews sites. At the moment I have data for about 20 sites.

The data that we take consists of looking at people's .newsrc files
to see which newsgroups they actually keep up to date on.

BY FAR, by a HUGE HUGE margin, the most popular group over these 20
sites is net.jokes.  Nothing else comes within a factor of 3.

I must admit I was very surprised at this.
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	Brian Reid	decwrl!glacier!reid
	Stanford	reid@SU-Glacier.ARPA