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  Here is a local extract of the latest readership data on usenet.
  It shows that readership of seattle.* is DOWN! by over 50%
  or 12000 readers.  (Thats in one month!)  Another month
  like that and we won't exist ... :-)


  The numbers for August were:

        +-- 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
 770  23000   497   14%   136   497.7    28%  0.01   0.9%  pnw.general
 781  22000   485   10%   333   580.9    43%  0.01   0.9%  seattle.general
 835  20000   441   12%   129   125.8    23%  0.00   0.8%  pnw.forsale
1300   7000   151    7%   213   330.5     2%  0.01   0.3%  pnw.personals
1481   4400    95    9%     1     0.5   100%  0.00   0.2%  pnw.test
1650   2700    59    6%     2     0.9     0%  0.00   0.1%  seattle.test

While the NEW numbers for September are:

 867  11000   359   12%   101   100.9    34%  0.00   0.8%  pnw.forsale 
 876  11000   354   14%   123   240.8    10%  0.01   0.8%  pnw.general 
 900  10000   344   11%   215   324.6    30%  0.01   0.7%  seattle.general 
(seattle test did not make the top 1000 groups.)


  The good news is that the traffic is down and the crossposting
  in seattle.general is way down as well.  

  In any event the seattle distribution is dramaticly smaller
  than just a month ago (I'm making no jugments on if this is a 
  good thing or not.)

  It could be that the lower circulation is partly because stephsf
  no longer forwards seattle.general articles to UUNET although I
  would not think that this would cause such a dramatic change.

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 +-  Bill England,  wengland@stephsf.COM -----------------------------------+
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