Readership Report for Radio-Related Usenet Newsgroups
Paul W Schleck KD3FU
Usenet newsgroups.]
+From: re...@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid)
+Newsgroups: news.lists
+Subject: USENET Readership report for Jan 93
+Date: 8 Feb 1993 18:01:14 GMT
+Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
+Lines: 1889
+Approved: re...@decwrl.dec.com
+Message-ID: <1l675a...@usenet.pa.dec.com>
+Summary: data for all groups
+Keywords: arbitron, statistics, full
+Originator: re...@torrey.pa.dec.com
This is the full set of data from the USENET readership report for Jan 93.
Explanations of the figures are in a companion posting.
+-- 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
290 31000 841 76% 2037 4138.7 6% 0.18 1.8% rec.radio.amateur.misc
358 28000 761 78% 947 1690.4 3% 0.09 1.6% rec.radio.shortwave
444 26000 688 75% 345 347.6 7% 0.02 1.4% rec.radio.swap
555 22000 586 75% 270 700.2 3% 0.04 1.2% rec.radio.amateur.packet
798 17000 452 57% 407 563.0 2% 0.03 0.9% alt.radio.scanner
801 17000 451 75% 211 530.9 2% 0.04 0.9% rec.radio.amateur.policy
931 14000 381 76% 10 19.0 10% 0.00 0.8% rec.radio.noncomm
956 14000 369 74% 124 273.7 3% 0.03 0.8% rec.radio.cb
1107 11000 294 64% 178 507.1 2% 0.05 0.6% rec.radio.broadcasting
1397 7400 198 41% 25 34.3 4% 0.00 0.4% rec.ham-radio
1422 7000 188 32% 41 179.6 3% 0.02 0.4% rec.radio.info
1434 6900 183 49% 2 2.8 0% 0.00 0.4% alt.radio.pirate
1438 6800 182 40% 1 0.8 0% 0.00 0.4% rec.ham-radio.swap
1561 5500 146 38% 3 3.5 0% 0.00 0.3% rec.ham-radio.packet
1847 2100 56 15% 115 285.7 6% 0.04 0.1% aus.radio
---
Note that the recently created newsgroup rec.radio.info has a readership
approximately equal to those that still think that rec.ham-radio is
still a valid heirarchy. I don't know if that's good or bad :-).
I belive the cross-posting percentage is distorted by the daily Solar
Reports (should these be cross-posted to rec.radio.amateur.misc?) that
are longer than the usual summaries that appear in the regular
newsgroups.
Astute readers of these monthly reports might note that
rec.radio.amateur.misc is usually in the top-40 most expensive
newsgroups in per-reader cost (high volume, low audience), but not this
month.
73, Paul W. Schleck, KD3FU
psch...@unomaha.edu
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Mark G. Salyzyn
>+re...@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) sez:
>+ . . .
>+290 31000 841 76% 2037 4138.7 6% 0.18 1.8% rec.radio.amateur.misc
>+358 28000 761 78% 947 1690.4 3% 0.09 1.6% rec.radio.shortwave
>+. . .
>+1397 7400 198 41% 25 34.3 4% 0.00 0.4% rec.ham-radio
>+1422 7000 188 32% 41 179.6 3% 0.02 0.4% rec.radio.info
>---
>I belive the cross-posting percentage is distorted by the daily Solar
>Reports (should these be cross-posted to rec.radio.amateur.misc?) that
>are longer than the usual summaries that appear in the regular
>newsgroups.
It realy comes down to MY indecision to Cary about what *realy* should
show up in rec.radio.* groups. I would say *everything* including cross
postings from sci.space.news ...
What it comes down to, is perhaps I should take a simple poll of what
you folks want to see (and to which radio groups they should be
cross-posted to)! Keep in mind that there has been some technical
difficulties with cross posting to rec.radio.info as Cary uses a
well connected mail to news gateway to post ...
To help start the discussion, I have taken a sample of the various reports
I had sitting on one of my machines and show the number of articles, dates
groups, line range and subjects:
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for ...
Date: 3 Jan 93 08:32:24 GMT - 1 Feb 93 09:01:38 GMT
Lines: 15-16
#: 31
Newsgroups: rec.radio.info
Subject: (PKT): Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:18:31 MST
Lines: 23
#: 1
Newsgroups: rec.radio.info
Subject: Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:25:14 MST - Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:46:08 MST
Lines: 114-143
#: 19
Newsgroups: sci.space.news
Subject: Daily Summary of Solar Geophysical Activity for ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:25:14 MST - Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:46:08 MST
Lines: 114-143
#: 19
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: BULLETIN: Dynamic Auroral Oval Simulation Software Update
Date: 22 Jan 93 22:37:33 GMT
Lines: 112
#: 1
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: AURORA: Middle Latitude Auroral Activity WATCH
Date: 26 Jan 93 07:25:44 GMT - 8 Feb 93 21:21:35 GMT
Lines: 55-57
#: 3
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Weekly Solar Terrestrial Forecast & Review - ...
Date: 8 Jan 93 07:48:29 GMT - 28 Jan 93 19:01:56 GMT
Lines: 398-411
#: 3
Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
Subject: Monthly Review of Solar & Geophysical Activity for ...
Date: 20 Jan 93 10:03:08 GMT
Lines: 381
#: 2
Newsgroups: rec.radio.info
Subject: Daily Summary of Ionospheric Data for ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:27:54 MST - Tue, 9 Feb 1993 01:48:48 MST
Lines: 5-129
#: 18
Newsgroups: rec.radio.info
Subject: (PKT): Daily Summary of Ionospheric Data (*/2) for ...
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:30:49 MST - Thu, 21 Jan 1993 01:31:32 MST
Lines: 49
#: 2
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Mark G. Salyzyn
>Newsgroups: rec.radio.amateur.misc
>Subject: Daily Solar Geophysical Data Broadcast for ...
>Date: 3 Jan 93 08:32:24 GMT - 1 Feb 93 09:01:38 GMT
>Lines: 15-16
>#: 31
> . . .
I forgot to include the articles from rec.radio.shortwave and sci.astro.
They are part of the set I indicated that are posted to other groups ...
Ciao, -- Mark
Richard McCombs KB5SNF
> psch...@unomaha.edu (Paul W Schleck KD3FU) sez:
>>+re...@decwrl.DEC.COM (Brian Reid) sez:
>>+ . . .
>>+290 31000 841 76% 2037 4138.7 6% 0.18 1.8% rec.radio.amateur.misc
>>+358 28000 761 78% 947 1690.4 3% 0.09 1.6% rec.radio.shortwave
>>+. . .
>>+1397 7400 198 41% 25 34.3 4% 0.00 0.4% rec.ham-radio
>>+1422 7000 188 32% 41 179.6 3% 0.02 0.4% rec.radio.info
>>---
>>I belive the cross-posting percentage is distorted by the daily Solar
>>Reports (should these be cross-posted to rec.radio.amateur.misc?) that
>>are longer than the usual summaries that appear in the regular
>>newsgroups.
> I have let this sleeping dog lay for a little while.
>
> It realy comes down to MY indecision to Cary about what *realy* should
> show up in rec.radio.* groups. I would say *everything* including cross
> postings from sci.space.news ...
>
> What it comes down to, is perhaps I should take a simple poll of what
> you folks want to see (and to which radio groups they should be
> cross-posted to)! Keep in mind that there has been some technical
> difficulties with cross posting to rec.radio.info as Cary uses a
> well connected mail to news gateway to post ...
>
He used to crosspost them to rec.radio.amateur.misc and then a few
months ago he started posting them seperately via the ucsd gateway.
If they going to be posted to several groups shouldn't it be crossposted
so that only one copy traverses the net?.
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