X-Message-Number: 1615
From: whscad1!kqb (Kevin Q Brown +1 201 386 7344)
Subject: CRYONICS sci.cryonics reader statistics

I just checked the Dec. 92 arbitron summary on the USENET news.lists
news group to see how many people read sci.cryonics.  According to the
table below, approximately 10,000 people read the sci.cryonics news
group, which is considerably more than the approximately 150
people/destinations on the cryonics mailing list.
                              Kevin Q. Brown
                              UUCP        ...att!whscad1!kqb
                              INTERNET    
                                 or       
PS: Considering which news groups made the top ten below, how popular
    do you suppose a news group on "humorous sexual jobs for new users"
    might be?
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> From:  (Brian Reid)
> Newsgroups: news.lists
> Subject: USENET Readership report for Dec 92
> Date: 1 Jan 1993 20:42:34 GMT
> Summary: data for all groups
> Keywords: arbitron, statistics, full

This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Dec 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 160000  4449   91%     1    12.0   100%  0.00   9.5%  
   news.announce.newusers 
   2 150000  4171   68%  2011  4475.8    40%  0.04   8.9%  alt.sex 
   3 130000  3754   86%   863  1782.3    19%  0.02   8.0%  misc.jobs.offered 
   4 130000  3726   84%    70   128.1     0%  0.00   7.9%  rec.humor.funny 
   5 130000  3524   87%     6   238.1    83%  0.00   7.5%  news.answers 

   6 120000  3316   56%  2216 98591.1     7%  0.85   7.1%  
   alt.binaries.pictures.erotica 
   7 120000  3297   84%  1359  1736.3    30%  0.02   7.0%  misc.forsale 
   8 110000  3187   89%   804  1588.9    16%  0.02   6.8%  comp.windows.x 
   9 110000  3103   51%   782  4280.2     7%  0.04   6.6%  alt.sex.stories 
  10 100000  2902   83%  1080  2764.2     8%  0.04   6.2%  rec.humor 
       . . .
 673  19000   534   77%    30   123.0     0%  0.01   1.1%  sci.nanotech 
       . . .
1147  10000   288   60%    68   347.0    19%  0.04   0.6%  sci.cryonics 
       . . .
1790   1700    47   11%    75   181.3    11%  0.02   0.1%  de.talk.chat 
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