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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