X-Message-Number: 1179
From: Kevin Q. Brown
Subject: USENET Readership Report 
Date: 9 Sep 1992

Subject: USENET Readership Report

In case you were wondering how widely read the new sci.cryonics
USENET newsgroup is, the following statistics (from Brian Reid's
periodic posting to news.lists) give a useful estimate.  For
comparison, I have included the listings for the top ten news
groups, sci.nanotech, and also the least popular USENET news
group (ar.info-snmp).
The sci.cryonics message traffic has gone way down from the 50
or more messages per day it had at the beginning to at most just
a few messages per day.  It will be interesting to see what the
next arbitron rating shows.
                              Kevin Q. Brown
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>Date: Thu, 3 Sep 92 05:10:10 GMT
>From:  (Brian Reid)
>Newsgroups: news.lists
>Subject: USENET Readership report for Aug 92

This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Aug 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 300000  6524   83%   871  1706.4    26%  0.01  12.1%  misc.jobs.offered
   2 270000  5912   82%  1513  1879.2    30%  0.02  11.0%  misc.forsale
   3 260000  5561   67%  2047  5205.5    33%  0.04  10.3%  alt.sex
   4 230000  4979   81%    64    89.8     0%  0.00   9.2%  rec.humor.funny
   5 200000  4416   81%     8   164.6    75%  0.00   8.2%  news.answers
   6 190000  4068   80%  2041  3419.5    11%  0.04   7.5%  rec.humor
   7 180000  3896   86%   942  1904.2    14%  0.02   7.2%  comp.windows.x
   8 170000  3740   89%   897  1860.2    13%  0.03   6.9%  news.groups
   9 170000  3577   70%     1    40.2     0%  0.00   6.6%  rec.arts.erotica

  10 160000  3498   88%    85   629.0   100%  0.01   6.5%  
  news.announce.newgroups
      . . .
 556  32000   682   76%   121   389.2     0%  0.03   1.3%  sci.nanotech
      . . .
1290   7200   156   32%    41   247.6    26%  0.03   0.3%  sci.cryonics
      . . .
2014     46     1    0%    18    27.9     0%  0.01   0.0%  ar.info-snmp

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