Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!um-math!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: new survey to supplement arbitron. Please run this program. Message-ID: <645@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> Date: 24 May 89 19:26:00 GMT References: <6964@cbmvax.UUCP> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Reply-To: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Distribution: na Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor Lines: 12 UUCP-Path: {mailrus,umix}!um-math!emv In article <6964@cbmvax.UUCP> grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins) writes: > >It depends somewhat on what Brian is trying to track, "reception" of news >or "long term" availabilty of news online... > From looking at the output, it appears to be fodder for 'netmap'. All you need then is a dictionary of where sites are (pathalias data) and voila! you can provide genuine, current information on what the real 'backbone' paths by which news flows, relative to any one site in particular or when aggregated to the whole world. Very interesting data, glad to see that it's being collected.