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morrison@eng.auburn.edu (Kelly Morrison) writes:

> Speaking of newsgroups, I've been quietly reading this one for a while
> and I was wondering just how widely read it is. Here at Auburn,
> we pick it up as "ga.general".
>    Gee, it's great being back in Georgia, even if it IS only over the
> net... :)

I don't have the 'readership' stats handy, but here's some of interest:
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Subject: Total traffic through uunet for the last 2 weeks
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Date: 9 Dec 1992 07:53:06 -0500
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298231 articles, totaling 558.073552 Mbytes (705.688758 including headers),
were submitted from 25821 different Usenet sites by 71133 different
users to 4414 different newsgroups for an average of 39.862397 Mbytes
(50.406340 including headers) per day.


Only categories receiving an average of 1 or more article per day are listed.

				  Article		  Total
	Category	Count	  Mbytes	Percent	  Mbytes
	alt               56264	186.196368	33.4%	215.388180
	rec               69804	107.749803	19.3%	142.086204
	comp              59445	107.659313	19.3%	137.433473
	soc               29021	 58.348702	10.5%	 73.853779
	clari             23257	 28.820908	 5.2%	 41.744219
	sci               11818	 22.280609	 4.0%	 28.530104

< etc. etc. etc. >

	ga                   64	  0.054140	 0.0%	  0.083717

< etc. etc. etc. >

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