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% com...
