Autah-cs.217
net.news
utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ihnss!cbosg!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau
Sun Feb 28 06:07:24 1982
How many articles does it take to...
Some mildly interesting data about numbers of articles on the net, gleaned
from a long-postponed netnews reap. Note that none of this concerns the
size of the articles, just the number of them. The sample consists of our
last 2271 net-wide articles, from December 31 thru February 27th.
Some caveats, however, which bias the data to varying degrees:
--We don't get any of fa.ALL, ug.ALL, net.columbia.
--We stopped net.space, net.games.trivia, jokes.q, & jokes.limericks in
the middle of this sample of news.
--If an article was submitted to multiple groups I counted the 1st one only.
(--The site counts include local articles for the utah hosts.)
Here are a few figures which seem interesting:
* 4 newsgroups, 5% of the total of 76, provided 47% of the netwave pollution.
Note that net.cooks didn't even start 'till January 29th, half-way thru the
period. (Funny date... the food wasn't THAT bad in Santa Monica!) The
"general" figure ought to convince everyone of the need for net.followup.
316 net.unix-wizards
314 net.general
235 net.cooks
210 net.news
* 4 sites, less than 3% of the total of 144, kicked in for 26% of the same.
However, it's not fair to SRI cause they are the arpa gateway for wizards.
Those foreign boys do seem to be exceptional typists however...
217 watmath
202 sri-unix
96 cbosgd
88 unc
And here's part of the data.
316 net.unix-wizards 217 watmath
314 net.general 202 sri-unix
235 net.cooks 96 cbosgd
210 net.news 88 unc
94 net.games.rogue 58 ucbvax
83 net.space 56 houxt
81 net.games 51 alice
69 net.misc 50 azure
55 net.jokes 49 we13
51 net.news.b 49 ucbarpa
50 net.test 49 lime
43 net.taxes 47 pur-ee
42 net.news.group 47 harpo
42 net.games.trivia 45 floyd
37 net.music 45 duke
36 net.travel 43 utzoo
36 net.bugs.v7 43 utah-cs
35 net.records 40 yale-com
32 net.micro 40 whuxlb
31 net.chess 39 ucf-cs
29 net.bugs.4bsd 39 eagle
28 net.ham-radio 32 rabbit
27 net.lan 31 purdue
26 net.auto 28 allegra
25 net.periphs 25 phs
19 net.sport.hockey 24 npois
13 net.movies 24 eiss
13 net.games.pacman 23 esquire
12 net.rec.bridge 22 presby
12 net.news.newsite 22 houxc
12 net.bugs.2bsd 21 ihuxn
10 net.eunice 21 houxf
20 watarts
20 ucbonyx
Enjoy!
Jay Lepreau
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