From: alok@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (alok.vijayvargia)
Subject: Re: Info repost from news.groups
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 17:38:07 GMT
Followup-To: news.groups

In article <92094.132350JLM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU>, JLM@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
> In article <1992Apr3.202642.10144@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>, alok@cbnewsi.cb.att.com
> (alok.vijayvargia) says:

> >A few people had certainly threatened to do so. However from the postings
> >coming onto SCIA, it is evident that all the sites which have been
> >contributing traffic on SCIA, are still contributing traffic on it.
> 
>  Again this is another false statement.

This is not a false statement.

>  Every month (each month) a list of Usenet statistics are posted
> in news.groups. Among the many stats that appear on these list are
> the number of sites that carry any particular group.
> 
>  The results for the month of March were posted last Tuesday, it
> shows that only 48% of the sites are carrying SCIA in its present
> state. NOTE: that is down from 67% the previous month.
> 

The reason for this is that the group is now being gradually restricted in
propagation to only USA sites.

As an evidence for this assertion, look at the following statistics for 
soc.culture.usa :


        +-- 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.



 545  17000   362   46%   341   646.3     9%  0.03   1.0%  soc.culture.usa


This shows that soc.culture.usa is carried at only 46 % of the total 45000
worldwide sites.

The sites carrying soc.culture.indian.american now are mostly USA sites
with some exceptions in Canada.


Earlier the group was carried worldwide with 67 % sites covered.

Also look at soc.culture.indian statistics which shows that group is
carried at 75 % of the 45000 worldwide sites.

  15  69000  1506   75%  2574  4745.6    12%  0.10   4.3%  soc.culture.indian


SCIA was meant to be carried only in USA and I recently made that clear
in my posts. Therefore there is no surprise to me that statistics has come down from 67 to 48 % as expected.

> Actually, every time you post you are hurting SCIA's chances of passing.

That is ridiculous.

> I wish you would just stay quiet until after the vote is over. Is that
> too much to ask of you ?
> 

Yes. Because you have accused me of doing what is untrue.
Furthermore this whole exercise of RFD/CFV for SCIA is a violation of net
guidelines. 

> Jose L. Martinez

Alok
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Disclaimer: I said what I said and that's all that I said and nobody
>             else said it.


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