Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!ucbarpa.berkeley.edu!fair From: fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu (Erik E. Fair) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Statistics, polls: honest, no flames Message-ID: <12753@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Fri, 28-Mar-86 17:56:42 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.12753 Posted: Fri Mar 28 17:56:42 1986 Date-Received: Sun, 30-Mar-86 02:26:06 EST References: <2015@hao.UUCP> <3389@sun.uucp> <1365@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU> <1960@saber.UUCP> <12727@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 23 In point of fact, ucbvax has quite a few netnews readers, in spite of the wildly variable load of the machine. I ran arbitron on ucbvax, and sent off the results to netsurvey@su-glacier.arpa. (257 users, 99 net readers). However, since we run a distributed netnews system here at UCB (as noted by Mr. Chapman), I also followed up the arbitron results with a letter to Brian Reid explaining our system, and including a copy of the weekly report that indicates which groups were accessed with what frequency. While we don't have it broken out by user (or even by machine; just a raw count of how many times each group was requested for examination by all the clients of the server that week), I think it is a good measure of what the UCB community is reading. Plug: the software in question implements RFC977 (Network News Transfer Protocol, [NNTP]), written by Phil Lapsley , and Brian Kantor , with some kibitzing from me. It is presently available for public FTP from ucbvax (10.2.0.78, pub/nntp.tar), soon to be posted to mod.sources. keeper of the network news for ucbvax, Erik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.berkeley.edu