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Here are the readership estimates for UU groups and some other
educational Usenet newsgroups from the September 1992 Usenet
statistics (the whole report is available in news.lists, article
<1992Oct1.180844.25311@PA.dec.com>):


Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.

        +-- 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)
        |     |     |      |      |      +-- Crossposting percentage
        |     |     |      |      |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      +-- Share: % of newsrders
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
        V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
   1 160000  5317   83%   980  1933.6    22%  0.02  11.5%  misc.jobs.offered 
   2 160000  5142   82%  1568  1909.7    40%  0.02  11.1%  misc.forsale 
   3 150000  4788   89%    10   157.9   100%  0.00  10.3%  news.announce.newusers 
   4 120000  3910   68%  2556  6290.4    45%  0.07   8.4%  alt.sex 
   5 120000  3903   84%     4   101.6    75%  0.00   8.4%  news.answers 

[ ... ]

 146  33000  1075   81%   241   628.0    55%  0.03   2.3%  comp.edu 
 249  26000   848   78%    30    69.8    32%  0.00   1.8%  comp.ai.edu 
 308  23000   759   73%   148   383.8    10%  0.02   1.6%  misc.education 
 313  23000   749   77%    49   136.2    43%  0.01   1.6%  sci.edu 
 764  13000   414   75%    43   141.0     0%  0.02   0.9%  comp.edu.composition 
1012   8800   290   51%    15   120.2     0%  0.01   0.6%  alt.education.distance 
1182   6600   216   54%    33    39.9     3%  0.01   0.5%  alt.education.disabled 
1223   6100   200   43%     -       -      -     -   0.4%  alt.uu.future 
1356   4500   148   12%    22    65.2   100%  0.00   0.3%  clari.tw.education 
1372   4300   142   34%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.announce 

(the traffic information for UU groups is missing probably due to the
site posting the stats not getting the UU groups).

//Jyrki