From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Newsgroups: alt.uu.future,alt.education.distance,misc.education,comp.edu
Subject: Estimates of UU and educational group readerships for December 1992
Date: 7 Jan 93 12:06:10 GMT
Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Here are the readership estimates for Usenet University (UU) groups
and some other educational Usenet newsgroups from the December 1992
Usenet statistics (the whole report is available in news.lists,
article <1i2abqINN407@usenet.pa.dec.com>):

(produced via egrep "alt.uu|edu")

Explanations of the figures can be found in the postings in
news.lists.

For more information on Usenet University, see the FAQ recently posted
to alt.uu.announce (or via anonymous ftp via nic.funet.fi,
pub/doc/uu/FAQ).

        +-- 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 

 200  36000  1003   84%    63   140.5    37%  0.01   2.1%  comp.edu 
 222  34000   947   80%    18    37.4    24%  0.00   2.0%  comp.ai.edu 
 241  33000   916   76%   264   766.4    71%  0.03   2.0%  misc.education 
 415  26000   719   79%    27    78.3    23%  0.00   1.5%  sci.edu 
 768  17000   479   77%    35   106.7     0%  0.01   1.0%  comp.edu.composition 
 857  15000   430   55%    18   107.9    24%  0.01   0.9%  alt.education.distance 
1114  11000   306   56%    49   116.1     4%  0.01   0.7%  alt.education.disabled 
1266   8400   234   43%     -       -      -     -   0.5%  alt.uu.announce 
1355   7400   205   49%     -       -      -     -   0.4%  alt.uu.future 
1524   5400   149   43%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.math.misc 
1539   5200   145   44%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc 
1593   4500   125   13%    15    36.6    93%  0.00   0.3%  clari.tw.education 
1599   4400   123   44%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc 
1614   4300   119   43%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.comp.misc 
1645   3900   109   42%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.tools 
1660   3700   103   42%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.lang.misc 


Here's the same information from the previous month, November 1992:

 207  32000   930   82%    50   107.0    19%  0.01   1.9%  comp.edu 
 276  28000   830   79%    16    67.8     7%  0.00   1.7%  comp.ai.edu 
 308  27000   776   75%   352   985.6    47%  0.05   1.6%  misc.education 
 406  23000   680   77%    39    90.8    11%  0.01   1.4%  sci.edu 
 808  15000   429   76%    27   122.5     0%  0.01   0.9%  comp.edu.composition 
 965  12000   354   54%    18   212.0    12%  0.02   0.7%  alt.education.distance 
1138   9500   278   57%     5    21.1    20%  0.00   0.6%  alt.education.disabled 
1236   8100   236   42%     -       -      -     -   0.5%  alt.uu.announce 
1264   7700   225   47%     -       -      -     -   0.5%  alt.uu.future 
1472   5200   153   41%     -       -      -     -   0.3%  alt.uu.virtual-worlds.misc 
1541   4100   119   41%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.math.misc 
1560   3700   109   41%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.lang.misc 
1562   3700   108   42%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.comp.misc 
1566   3700   107   42%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.lang.esperanto.misc 
1579   3500   101   41%     -       -      -     -   0.2%  alt.uu.tools 
1667   1700    50   14%    11    24.4    27%  0.00   0.1%  aus.education 

//Jyrki
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