Subject: Re: USENET/TP INTEREST STATS
From: scs@lokkur.dexter.mi.us (Steve Simmons)
Date: 1991-02-21, 17:51
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks

jguy@lilith.EBay.Sun.COM (Jeff Bone) writes:

> >An estimated 38000 persons worldwide read the Twin Peaks interest group 
> >on the USENET network news service.  Of 706 newsgroups on topics ranging
>from technical/professional issues to social topics, the Twin Peaks
> >group ranks 188, or in the 74th percentile.  The newsgroup carries
> >over 1000 "postings" (articles or letters) each month, or over 34 per
> >day.  It is "received" by 69% of all sites on USENET;  note that receiving
> >a group is optional, meaning that 69% of all the sites have an interest in
> >seeing this group.

One correction -- according to uunet, there are approxomately 1900
newsgroups.  Almost all are smaller the the `canonical seven' (of
which alt is *not* a part), so it's safe to say a.tv.t-p is in the
top 10%.

Yours for better lies with statistics,

Steve
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