From: cyberoid@milton.u.washington.edu (Robert Jacobson) Subject: %-) ADMIN: sci.v-w ranks somewhere between alt.sex and nyu.listserv! Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1992 05:56:05 GMT Organization: Human Interface Technology Lab, Univ. of Wash., Seattle Date: Sat, 1 Feb 92 17:34:38 -0800 From: Mark A. DeLoura To: cyberoid Subject: Usenet readership report Here's the latest from news.lists on sci.virtual-worlds readership... >Article 927 of news.lists: >From: reid@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) >Newsgroups: news.lists >Subject: USENET Readership report for Jan 92 >Date: 2 Feb 92 00:16:16 GMT > >This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Jan 92. >Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting. > > +-- 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 > 1 250000 5272 70% 1756 6300.0 28% 0.04 13.0% alt.sex > 2 220000 4597 85% 814 1629.4 17% 0.01 11.4% misc.jobs.offered > 3 190000 3932 83% 82 159.2 0% 0.00 9.7% rec.humor.funny > 4 170000 3551 82% 2067 3472.9 10% 0.04 8.8% rec.humor > 5 160000 3350 84% 1456 1851.7 40% 0.02 8.3% misc.forsale > 6 160000 3300 73% 9 121.9 0% 0.00 8.2% rec.arts.erotica > 7 130000 2734 90% 1136 2221.1 19% 0.03 6.8% news.groups > 8 120000 2613 86% 688 1344.9 19% 0.02 6.5% comp.graphics > 9 120000 2503 89% 81 523.2 100% 0.01 6.2% news.announce.new- groups > 10 120000 2444 66% 1228 3355.5 3% 0.04 6.0% alt.sex.bondage >. >. > 379 31000 652 77% 217 549.6 0% 0.03 1.6% sci.virtual-worlds >. >. >1650 95 2 1% 4 3.8 50% 0.00 0.0% uiuc.announce >1651 95 2 0% 13 173.1 0% 0.03 0.0% ar.info-ada >1652 95 2 0% 5 5.4 0% 0.00 0.0% tamu.phil.240 >1653 47 1 1% 4 6.9 25% 0.00 0.0% uiuc.sys.next >1654 47 1 0% 20 37.6 0% 0.01 0.0% nyu.listserv.cwis-l Let's see, 1.6% of 500,000 readers comes to about 8,000 participants...a very honorable level of interest. Now, if the 7,150 of you who just look in occasionally will join in, we'll really have something going! :-) Thanks to everyone for this demonstration of energy. Bob Jacobson Mark De Loura Moderator Co-Moderator