Re: Most Downloads?

[terrable]

"Toady Lickspittle" <To...@nospam.pls> wrote in message
news:4b378059...@news.giganews.com...
>
> How can I find out which groups have the
> most daily downloads? Not the most in post
> count, but the most files downloaded from a
> particular group.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Toadie
>

You can't without a response from every NSP.

[chuckcar]

"terrable" <terr...@terrable.net> wrote in
news:m4UZm.43766$_b5....@newsfe22.iad:

Along with access to all their server logs. Not going to happen.

--
(setq (chuck nil) car(chuck) )

[Curt Welch]

<to...@nospam.pls> wrote:

> Turns out the info. is available here, in case anyone
> needs it later on:
>
> http://www.newsadmin.com/topbreads.asp
>
> Mucha data there!
>
> Toady

Be aware that the data probably only comes from only one NSP - newsguy
(that's their web site). It's probably typical of most paid servers by
won't be typical of all of Usenet especially of the text only servers.

--
Curt Welch http://CurtWelch.Com/
cu...@kcwc.com http://NewsReader.Com/

[Steve Crook]

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On 15 Jan 2010 22:01:06 GMT, Curt Welch wrote in
Message-Id: <20100115170659.838$B...@newsreader.com>:

> Be aware that the data probably only comes from only one NSP - newsguy
> (that's their web site). It's probably typical of most paid servers by
> won't be typical of all of Usenet especially of the text only servers.

I'm surprised the phone-sex advertising newsgroups don't rate
considering that Newsguy injects over a million commercial postings
every month into them. They clearly have some 'interesting' customers.