Ok, I don't know if anybody was very interested last month either, but
in case people want to know and don't read the news.lists group, here is
the latest (edited) popularity info.  Additionally, linux once more
showed up in the top-40 lists in both volume and per-reader cost. 

This month yet another milestone was reached: note the "Recent traffic"
fields (both in kilobytes and number of messages): c.o.linux is actually
more active than alt.sex according to newsstat.  c.o.linux was nr 31
in traffic volume in kB - actually the biggest non-binary "technical"
group it would seem. 

                Linus

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This is the edited set of data from the USENET readership report for Oct 92.
Explanations of the figures (and the full lists) can be found in 'news.lists'.

        +-- 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 190000  5837   90%    10   158.1   100%  0.00  12.1%  news.announce.newusers 
   2 160000  4971   83%  1002  1958.2    17%  0.02  10.3%  misc.jobs.offered 
   3 160000  4965   82%  1666  2087.5    36%  0.02  10.3%  misc.forsale 
   4 130000  4015   68%  1752  4192.5    41%  0.04   8.3%  alt.sex 
   5 120000  3855   84%     6   262.9    67%  0.00   8.0%  news.answers 
...
  20  75000  2331   87%  1294  2465.0    16%  0.05   4.8%  comp.lang.c 
...
  94  41000  1289   84%    90   120.8    30%  0.00   2.7%  comp.unix.misc 
...
 114  39000  1197   77%  1251  2943.9     5%  0.11   2.5%  comp.unix.bsd 
...
 171  33000  1016   86%   593   928.1    13%  0.05   2.1%  comp.unix.ultrix 
...
 256  27000   842   72%  2890  4755.9     4%  0.24   1.7%  comp.os.linux 
...
 279  26000   801   83%   880  1465.3     8%  0.09   1.7%  comp.unix.aix 
...
 297  25000   784   82%    23    35.4     9%  0.00   1.6%  comp.os.misc 
...
 385  22000   690   83%   163  1094.1     3%  0.08   1.4%  comp.os.minix 
...
 543  18000   554   49%     -       -      -     -   1.2%  comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit 
...
 689  15000   478   76%   526   887.8     1%  0.09   1.0%  comp.os.coherent 
...
1640   1600    49   10%    13   137.4     0%  0.02   0.1%  de.newusers