An interesting statistic calculated by the folks who keep
track of Usenet traffic is the estimated number of people
who read bionet.molbio.genbank.updates: 14,000! Can it be?
Una
Really-From: reid at decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
Newsgroups: news.lists,news.groups
TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY PER-READER COST
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that
produced
them.
+-- 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 61 1 2% 15526 22244.0 0% 18.00 0.0% ncar.weather
2 45000 735 52% 936 45677.9 2% 1.10 1.8%
alt.binaries.sounds.misc
3 14000 233 42% 3849 15300.6 0% 0.95 0.6%
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