From: gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Jonathan Gardner)
Subject: Cross-posting
Organization: Institute for Astronomy, Hawaii
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 09:07:14 GMT


I have been reading this group for a while and I was getting the
impression that almost all postings in here were cross-posted from or
into other groups. I decided to compile some statistics to see if this
is true. Here are the statistics about cross-posting to soc.men for the
last 10 days, or 522 posts. The numbers are how often that group
appeared in the Newsgroups line, and the percentage. The reverse column
is, for the top ten groups, the total number of postings in _that_
group, and the percentage of that group's postings cross-posted to
soc.men. It appears that alt.dads-rights is simply a subset of this
group, alt.child-support slightly less so, and that soc.men and
soc.women have 2/3 of their posts in common. We don't get alt.sex here,
so I don't know the reverse statistics on that group, but I suspect it
would be a low percentage.


 Newsgroup                Number      Percentage    Reverse     Percentage
 ---------                ------      ----------    -------     ----------
 soc.men                     522        100.0000        522       100.0000  
 soc.women                   352         67.4330        534        65.9176  
 alt.sex                     155         29.6935          ?              ?
 alt.child-support            97         18.5824        137        70.8029  
 alt.dads-rights              63         12.0690         69        91.3044  
 sci.skeptic                  33          6.3218        752         4.3883  
 misc.legal                   30          5.7471        373         8.0429  
 alt.abortion.inequity        30          5.7471        119        25.2101  
 sci.bio                      22          4.2146         94        23.4043  
 soc.singles                  19          3.6398        978         1.9427  
 talk.bizarre                 17          3.2567  
 soc.motss                    17          3.2567  
 soc.couples                  16          3.0651  
 aus.flame                    16          3.0651  
 alt.flame                    16          3.0651  
 soc.penpals                  15          2.8736  
 alt.romance                  11          2.1073  
 alt.censorship               11          2.1073  
 talk.abortion                 8          1.5326  
 sci.anthropology              4          0.7663  
 soc.culture.pakistan          2          0.3831  
 soc.culture.arabic            2          0.3831  
 misc.kids                     2          0.3831  
 alt.folklore.urban            2          0.3831  
 alt.config                    2          0.3831  
 alt.atheism                   2          0.3831  
 alt.abortion.ine              2          0.3831      (Note mistake.)
 soc.culture.jewish            1          0.1916  
 soc.culture.asian.amerian     1          0.1916  
 rec.humor                     1          0.1916  
 rec.arts.movies               1          0.1916  
 alt.wanted.moslem.gay         1          0.1916  
 alt.sex.bondage               1          0.1916  
 alt.recovery                  1          0.1916  
 alt.polyamory                 1          0.1916  
 alt.parents-teens             1          0.1916  
 alt.dads.rights               1          0.1916      (Note mistake.)


Here are the statistics for the entire Newsgroup line. I have attempted
to combine duplicates. Note that only 26% of the posts were not cross-
posted.


 Newsgroups                                              Number  Percentage
 ----------                                              ------  ----------
 soc.men                                                    136     26.0536  
 alt.sex,soc.men,soc.women                                  125     23.9464  
 soc.men,soc.women                                           38      7.2797  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.child-support,alt.dads-rights         27      5.1724  
 soc.women,soc.men,sci.bio,sci.skeptic                       22      4.2146  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.child-support                         20      3.8314  
 soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal,alt.child-support,
     alt.dads-rights                                         17      3.2567  
 soc.singles,soc.couples,soc.men,soc.women,soc.motss         16      3.0651  
 alt.sex,soc.women,soc.men,talk.bizarre,alt.flame,aus.flame  16      3.0651  
 soc.men,soc.women,soc.penpals                               15      2.8736  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.child-support,alt.abortion.inequity   13      2.4904  
 alt.sex,soc.men,soc.women,alt.romance                       11      2.1073  
 soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal,alt.child-support               7      1.3410  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.censorship,sci.skeptic                 7      1.3410  
 alt.dads-rights,alt.child-support,soc.men                    7      1.3410  
 talk.abortion,alt.abortion.inequity,soc.men                  6      1.1494  
 soc.men,alt.dads-rights                                      5      0.9579  
 soc.men,soc.women,misc.legal,alt.child-support,
     alt.dads-rights,alt.abortion.inequity                    5      0.9579  
 soc.men,misc.legal                                           4      0.7663  
 sci.anthropology,sci.skeptic,soc.men                         4      0.7663  
 soc.singles,soc.men,soc.women                                2      0.3831  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,
     alt.folklore.urban,misc.legal                            2      0.3831  
 soc.men,soc.women,alt.censorship                             2      0.3831  
 soc.culture.arabic,soc.culture.pakistan,soc.women,
     alt.atheism,soc.men                                      2      0.3831  
 alt.sex,soc.men                                              2      0.3831  
 alt.dads-rights,soc.men,soc.women,misc.kids                  2      0.3831  
 alt.config,soc.men                                           2      0.3831  
 soc.motss,soc.men,soc.women                                  1      0.1916  
 soc.men,soc.women,soc.singles,talk.bizarre                   1      0.1916  
 soc.men,alt.child-support                                    1      0.1916  
 soc.men,alt.abortion.inequity                                1      0.1916  
 rec.arts.movies,rec.humor,alt.sex,alt.sex.bondage,
     soc.culture.jewish,soc.culture.asian.american,
     alt.parents-teens,alt.recovery,soc.men,soc.women,
     alt.polyamory,alt.wanted.moslem.gay                      1      0.1916  
 alt.abortion.inequity,soc.men,alt.dads.rights                1      0.1916  

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Jon Gardner                                gardner@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu
Institute for Astronomy                           University of Hawaii
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