From: edc@evolution.bchs.uh.edu (edward s. chen)
Subject: rmb readership - august 1992
Organization: Little to none, or maybe not......
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 21:13:12 GMT


        +-- 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

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 505  33000   722   74%   339   601.0     0%  0.04   1.3%  rec.music.beatles

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   1 300000  6524   83%   871  1706.4    26%  0.01  12.1%  misc.jobs.offered
   2 270000  5912   82%  1513  1879.2    30%  0.02  11.0%  misc.forsale
   3 260000  5561   67%  2047  5205.5    33%  0.04  10.3%  alt.sex
   4 230000  4979   81%    64    89.8     0%  0.00   9.2%  rec.humor.funny
   5 200000  4416   81%     8   164.6    75%  0.00   8.2%  news.answers
   6 190000  4068   80%  2041  3419.5    11%  0.04   7.5%  rec.humor
   7 180000  3896   86%   942  1904.2    14%  0.02   7.2%  comp.windows.x
   8 170000  3740   89%   897  1860.2    13%  0.03   6.9%  news.groups
   9 170000  3577   70%     1    40.2     0%  0.00   6.6%  rec.arts.erotica
  10 160000  3498   88%    85   629.0   100%  0.01   6.5%  news.announce.newgroups
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  49  98000  2125   77%  1225  2120.2    23%  0.05   3.9%  rec.music.misc
 147  66000  1425   76%   440   901.9    12%  0.03   2.6%  rec.music.cd
 157  64000  1389   76%  1569  3369.7     2%  0.11   2.6%  rec.music.classical
 163  64000  1378   77%  1080  1749.4    14%  0.06   2.6%  rec.music.synth
 170  63000  1352   76%   391   659.5    19%  0.02   2.5%  rec.music.makers
 318  45000   976   75%   577   980.9    16%  0.05   1.8%  rec.music.folk
 345  44000   946   75%   669  1222.6     3%  0.06   1.8%  rec.music.bluenote
 369  42000   906   75%  1875  2750.8     1%  0.13   1.7%  rec.music.gdead
 430  38000   822   74%   291   501.3     8%  0.03   1.5%  rec.music.newage
 486  35000   749   67%   888  1396.3     8%  0.07   1.4%  rec.music.industrial
 505  33000   722   74%   339   601.0     0%  0.04   1.3%  rec.music.beatles
 551  32000   685   74%    93   162.3     0%  0.01   1.3%  rec.music.dementia
 576  31000   664   65%    20   135.3    63%  0.01   1.2%  rec.music.reviews
 654  28000   602   70%   233   348.5    10%  0.02   1.1%  rec.music.country.western
 670  27000   588   67%   802  1878.9     1%  0.13   1.1%  rec.music.christian
 684  27000   579   68%    32    47.9    17%  0.00   1.1%  rec.music.video
 740  24000   526   55%   109   202.3    23%  0.01   1.0%  rec.music.indian.classical
 757  24000   509   72%   140   181.5     1%  0.01   0.9%  rec.music.dylan
 773  23000   494   74%   226   702.9     0%  0.06   0.9%  rec.music.gaffa
 795  22000   472   41%   183   252.9    15%  0.01   0.9%  rec.music.marketplace
 850  20000   431   67%    73   105.7     6%  0.01   0.8%  rec.music.afro-latin
 866  19000   414   66%    87   106.8    24%  0.01   0.8%  rec.music.funky
 928  17000   374   64%    81   109.0     1%  0.01   0.7%  rec.music.early
 942  17000   364   54%   351   534.3     2%  0.05   0.7%  rec.music.indian.misc
1092  12000   263   47%   244   328.3     1%  0.04   0.5%  rec.music.phish
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 536  30000   491   74%   394   754.7     0%  0.04   1.2%  rec.music.beatles
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[1] The numbers for r.m.b. - August 1992
[2] The numbers for the top ten newsgroups - August 1992
[3] The numbers for all the r.m.* groups - August 1992
[4] The numbers for r.m.b. - July 1992

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