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From: page@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Ten Thousand messages in comp.sys.amiga
Message-ID: <1930@ulowell.cs.ulowell.edu>
Date: Mon, 2-Nov-87 16:21:25 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov  2 16:21:25 1987
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Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Usenet Statistics Dept.
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I just noticed swan.ulowell.edu (ULowell's news/mail gateway) is up to
message number 10000 in comp.sys.amiga.

This is just since the name change, which took place around May 1 of
this year.  That means Ten Thousand messages in about 26 weeks, or 385
mesages per week.  If you read news M-F only, that's an average of
almost 77 messages per day.

Kinda boggles the mind, eh?

From Brian Reid's arbitron stats, in news.lists:

>Message-ID: <12041@decwrl.DEC.COM>
>Date: 1 Nov 87 16:16:44 GMT

       +-- 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
Rank   V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
  1 11000   845   97%  1351 3092.1   122   1.70    5.0%  comp.sys.amiga
  2 31000  2453   98%    68 2667.2     2   0.51   14.6%  comp.sources.unix
  3 21000  1642   98%  1427 2124.3    67   0.60    9.8%  comp.sys.mac
  4 22000  1733   96%   882 1898.9    40   0.51   10.3%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
  8  9200   729   97%   555 1162.7    60   0.74    4.3%  comp.sys.atari.st

Note also that comp.sys.amiga has a VERY high participation ratio,
which indicates the number of people that CONTRIBUTE to the group
rather than just read it.  Amigans are twice as active as anyone else!

[ and you voted against a split! ]

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.   page@ulowell.{uucp,edu,csnet}