Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!cbmvax!ulowell!page
From: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Where does the traffic come from?
Message-ID: <5164@swan.ulowell.edu>
Date: 29 Feb 88 21:24:10 GMT
Reply-To: page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
Organization: University of Lowell, Computer Science Dept.
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I did some stats on six weeks of comp.sys.amiga traffic.  This info is
already out of date by the time you read this (as I will have gotten
more articles) but thought I'd throw it out anyway.  There really
aren't any surprises here.

Articles posted:	2307	(almost 55 messages per day)
Number of authors:	 675	(approx)

The top 10 posters accounted for about 19% of total articles posted.
The top 20 posters accounted for about 29% of total articles posted.

Top twenty article posters, by article count:
  70 dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
  65 peter@nuchat.UUCP & peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
  57 cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
  45 papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa)
  43 haitex@pnet01.cts.com (Wade Bickel)
  38 daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
  35 page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page)
  34 spencer@eris (Randal m. Spencer [RmS])
  33 richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
  31 FATQW@USU.BITNET (Bryan Ford)
  25 bryce@hoser.berkeley.edu & bryce@eris.berkeley.edu (Bryce Nesbitt)
  25 ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
  24 blgardne@esunix.UUCP (Blaine Gardner)
  24 chanst@atrium.UUCP (Steve T Chan)
  23 john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell)
  22 schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
  21 Doug_B_Erdely@cup.portal.com
  20 ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
  19 cs178abu@sdcc8.ucsd.EDU (John Schultz)
  19 harald@ccicpg.UUCP & harald@leo.UUCP ( Harald Milne)

Articles from cbmvax:	129 (about 5.6% of total)
Authors from cbmvax:	 16

Article posters & count from cbmvax:
  38 daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
  22 schein@cbmvax.UUCP (Dan Schein CATS)
  12 steveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Steve Beats)
  10 andy@cbmvax.UUCP (Andy Finkel)
   9 carolyn@cbmvax.UUCP (Carolyn Scheppner CATS)
   8 grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins)
   8 gunther@cbmvax.UUCP (Ed Gunther QA)
   6 daveb@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Berezowski)
   3 sterling@cbmvax.UUCP (Rick Sterling QA)
   3 lauren@cbmvax.UUCP (Lauren Brown CATS)
   3 campbell@cbmvax.UUCP (John Campbell SW)
   2 hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
   2 eric@cbmvax.UUCP (Eric Cotton)
   1 rains@cbmvax.UUCP (Nancy Rains)
   1 joe@cbmvax.UUCP (Joe O'Hara)
   1 bill@cbmvax.UUCP (Bill Koester CATS)

So what does this mean?  That 20-25 people make up about one-third of
the articles in the newsgroup, and that Commodore generates a good
amount as well (average articles per poster in comp.sys.amiga is
almost 3, while at Commodore it is over 12, if you define "average" as
the mean.)

And no need to post articles just to get your count up.  This won't be
a regular thing.

..Bob
-- 
Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept.  page@swan.ulowell.edu  ulowell!page
"I don't know such stuff.  I just do eyes."  -- from 'Blade Runner'