🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

1 total messages Started by Jyrki Kuoppala Tue, 06 Oct 1992 19:57
Estimates of UU and educational group readerships for September 1992
#105
Author: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 19:57
41 lines
2877 bytes
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
Thread Navigation

This is a paginated view of messages in the thread with full content displayed inline.

Messages are displayed in chronological order, with the original post highlighted in green.

Use pagination controls to navigate through all messages in large threads.

Back to All Threads