Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nbires!isis!aburt
From: aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: More interesting net statistics
Message-ID: <2199@isis.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 23:30:14 GMT
References: <1372@looking.UUCP>
Reply-To: aburt@isis.UUCP (Andrew Burt)
Organization: Math/CS, University of Denver
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In article <1372@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes:
->If each article took 3 seconds to scan or read

->By the way, based on B.R.'s statistics for the number of netreaders, those
->491,000,000 reader-messages work out to about 75 messages per day per
->active newsreader, and 17 messages/day per user-with-account.

You failed to mention: 75 msg/day * 3 sec/msg = 225 sec/day or 4 min/day
the avg. reader spends reading news.  Seems low...
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Andrew Burt 				   			isis!aburt

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