Subject: Re: Fiona needs some info *fast*
From: mcintyre@cs.rpi.edu (David McIntyre)
Date: 1991-04-18, 17:55
Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks
fi@grebyn.com (Fiona Oceanstar) writes:
> > 3) I've heard a number of 38,000 estimated for how many people
> >read USENET news--do we have any better figures than that, like
> >for alt.tv.twin-peaks in particular?
> > 4) Any stats at *all* might be helpful: how many articles per
> >day or per month, for example; anything else you can think of
I sent Fiona this information from news.lists, but I figured that a lot
of people might be interested in seeing the numbers. Here they are:
From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.lists
Subject: USENET Readership report for Mar 91
Date: 3 Apr 91 16:09:37 GMT
+-- 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/reader
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
1 160000 3468 74% 2053 5539.7 6% 0.05 12.4% alt.sex
2 150000 3300 89% 97 286.1 0% 0.00 11.8% rec.humor.funny
3 140000 3044 91% 537 1003.0 11% 0.01 10.9% misc.jobs.offered
4 130000 2800 89% 1041 1326.6 34% 0.02 10.0% misc.forsale
.....
218 31000 682 67% 770 1042.4 5% 0.04 2.4% alt.tv.twin-peaks
-Dave
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