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From: avolio@decuac.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Net readership survey, data for 0.88% of the network
Message-ID: <859@decuac.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 09:56:53 EST
Article-I.D.: decuac.859
Posted: Fri Mar 14 09:56:53 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 19:15:26 EST
References: <5239@glacier.ARPA>
Organization: ULTRIX Applications Center, MD
Lines: 24
Keywords: keep those reports rolling in, please

In article <5239@glacier.ARPA>, reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid) writes:
> Here is the cumulative readership data after 3 days of collecting.
> Has YOUR site contributed? The following sites have sent valid data:
> 
>   Summary: 3999 users at 29 sites (0.88% of the net)
>          870 of them (21.76%) are netreaders.
> 
> NOTE: this represents FAR more participation than any "democratic procedure"
> that the net has ever engaged in. 870 netnews users participated
> (indirectly) in this survey.

Please note that the key word is *indirectly*.  The survey (also note
it it .88%  only) has statistics automatically taken from .newsrc
files.  This includes every person who K's through news groups but
never unsubscribes, etc.  I wonder if all of this information is going
to prove to be significant at all?  Also, please  note because of the
*indirect* nature of the reporting, you stil only have 29 individuals
who responded -- the news administrators of the systems mentioned.

And no, I have not sent this data in, not being sure of the purpose of
this poll and these statistics.
-- 
Fred @ DEC Ultrix Applications Center
UUCP: {decvax,seismo,cbosgd}!decuac!avolio       INET: avolio@decuac.DEC.COM