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Here is some information that addresses the question posed recently
in bionet.general about traffic and readership statistics.

The data below are from the Usenet Readership Report for January 1994,
the most recent report available.  The newsgroups are sorted by the
number of articles posted per month.  With the notable exception of
genbank.updates and methds-reagnts (the first two groups listed), the
number of articles posted (column 4) is generally far smaller than
the number of readers detected in the sampled population (column 2).

The sci.bio.* newsgroups are included at the bottom, for comparison.
Several of them, including sci.bio.evolution, which has the most
traffic and is moderated by Josh Hayes, are only about 6 months old,
but going strong.  Sci.bio has by far the largest surveyed readership.

  +-- 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
  V     V     V      V      V      V
25000   301   43%  1486  5819.6     0%  bionet.molbio.genbank.updates
37000   448   45%   807  1179.0     1%  bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts
67000   811   48%   400   671.4     7%  bionet.general
48000   589   47%   253   521.1     2%  bionet.software
69000   846   48%   190   476.3    10%  bionet.jobs
44000   531   44%   171   303.0     8%  bionet.neuroscience
18000   221   34%   156   258.8     0%  bionet.molbio.yeast
21000   256   38%   142   310.5     5%  bionet.immunology
31000   377   35%   140   302.0     0%  bionet.women-in-bio
33000   406   39%   127   240.8     3%  bionet.plants
28000   339   46%   105   131.5     1%  bionet.molbio.proteins
28000   340   41%    95   430.9     2%  bionet.info-theory
44000   539   46%    72   144.9     0%  bionet.molbio.evolution
16000   193   32%    68   150.7     3%  bionet.software.gcg
25000   304   42%    66   152.3     2%  bionet.genome.arabidopsis
25000   302   44%    62   151.4     2%  bionet.users.addresses
19000   230   39%    51   122.3     4%  bionet.xtallography
11000   138   26%    48   109.2     4%  bionet.metabolic-reg
13000   157   33%    41    52.3     0%  bionet.drosophila
28000   346   40%    36   222.9     3%  bionet.announce
28000   337   44%    32    58.4     0%  bionet.agroforestry
30000   367   45%    31    65.7    10%  bionet.molbio.genbank
16000   196   33%    31    37.5    14%  bionet.molbio.rapd
15000   185   33%    31    97.8     3%  bionet.photosynthesis
13000   155   31%    31    31.5     0%  bionet.mycology
17000   212   31%    30    50.7    14%  bionet.cellbiol
26000   320   47%    26   702.8     0%  bionet.sci-resources
21000   257   39%    26    54.3     4%  bionet.biology.tropical
15000   184   31%    24    42.3     0%  bionet.chlamydomonas
19000   235   40%    22    36.1     0%  bionet.molbio.hiv
27000   325   46%    19    35.3     0%  bionet.molbio.ageing
23000   275   44%    18    58.7     6%  bionet.molbio.genome-program
15000   186   32%    17    32.6    19%  bionet.genome.chromosomes
16000   190   35%    12    24.4     0%  bionet.journals.note
13000   163   31%    12    56.4     8%  bionet.software.acedb
24000   295   45%    11    29.5     9%  bionet.population-bio
13000   157   31%    11    30.6     0%  bionet.biology.n2-fixation
18000   215   35%     9    13.1     0%  bionet.virology
22000   269   46%     8    65.2     0%  bionet.journals.contents
14000   175   37%     8    42.2     0%  bionet.molbio.gdb
28000   336   45%     6     8.3     0%  bionet.molbio.embldatabank
18000   219   42%     6    20.4     0%  bionet.molbio.gene-linkage
17000   211   45%     4    27.3     0%  bionet.molbio.bio-matrix
19000   227   42%     -       -      -  bionet.biology.computational
14000   171   36%     -       -      -  bionet.genome.chrom22

18000   219   29%   499  1193.7     0%  sci.bio.evolution
91000  1104   78%   443   777.3    21%  sci.bio
33000   400   55%   403   862.5     1%  sci.bio.ecology
14000   168   28%   252   504.1     2%  sci.bio.ethology
14000   167   29%   158   224.3     1%  sci.bio.herp
54000   661   73%    83   178.3     1%  sci.bio.technology


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	Una Smith			smith-una@yale.edu

Department of Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT  06520-8104  USA