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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.