Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!mit-eddie!uw-beaver!tektronix!tekcrl!tekfdi!videovax!stever From: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Interesting stats from news.groups Message-ID: <4423@videovax.Tek.COM> Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 16:13:11 EDT Article-I.D.: videovax.4423 Posted: Thu Jun 4 16:13:11 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Jun-87 01:46:25 EDT References: <341@rocky.STANFORD.EDU> <1963@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP> Reply-To: stever@videovax.Tek.COM (Steven E. Rice, P.E.) Distribution: world Organization: Tektronix Television Systems, Beaverton, Oregon Lines: 48 Keywords: comp.sys.amiga Summary: We're number two!! In article <341@rocky.STANFORD.EDU>, Ali Ozer (ali@rocky.stanford.edu) noted that comp.sys.amiga "is climbing to the top, both in volume and popularity." George Robbins (grr@cbmvax.UUCP) responded (in article <1963@cbmvax.cbmvax.cbm.UUCP>): > Ali, this is not entirly a good thing. If you look, comp.sys.amiga also > has the highest cost per reader. . . . Almost. The actual "winner" in the cost-per-reader category was soc.women. The "top 5" listing below comes from article <10153@decwrl.DEC.COM> by Brian Reed (the article was posted June 1, 1987 to news.lists and news.groups): #define BEGINQUOTE TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them. +-- 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) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 7900 614 90% 1120 2637.0 141 1.60 4.3% soc.women 2 12000 899 97% 828 3049.5 69 1.20 6.3% comp.sys.amiga 3 5200 407 89% 498 1159.7 95 1.10 2.8% talk.politics.misc 4 1700 136 71% 178 383.4 105 1.10 1.0% sci.philosophy.tech 5 3700 291 90% 240 765.6 64 0.99 2.0% talk.religion.misc #define ENDQUOTE > Number one is a very obvious and precarious position. I'd be much happier > to see us down around number 10-20 in every measure execpt readership... Agreed. Steve Rice ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- new: stever@videovax.tv.Tek.com old: {decvax | hplabs | ihnp4 | uw-beaver | cae780}!tektronix!videovax!stever