sixty two thousand was re how many read sci space in article apr sol uvic ca rborden ugly uvic ca ross borden writes in article f permanet org mark prado p f n z permanet org mark prado writes one could go on and on and on here but i wonder how many people read sci space and of what power influence are these individuals quick everyone who sees this post a reply that says hey i read sci space then we can count them and find out how many there are this will also help answer that nagging question just what is the maximum bandwidth of the internet anyways a practical suggestion to be sure but one could also peek into news lists where brian reid has posted usenet readership report for mar another posting called usenet readership summary report for mar gives the methodology and caveats of reid s survey these postings failed to appear for a while i wonder why but they are now back reid alas gives us no measure of the power influence of readers sorry mark i suspect mark dangling out there on fidonet may not get news lists so i ve mailed him copies of these reports the bottom line 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 sci space the first figure indicates that sci space ranks th among most read newsgroups i ve been keeping track sporadically to watch the growth of traffic and readership you might be entertained to see this oct sci space mar sci space jul sci space may sci space some kind of glitch in estimating number of readers happens here sep sci space nov sci space revision in ranking groups happens here mar sci space possibly old usenet hands could give me some more background on how to interpret these figures glitches or the history of reid s reporting effort take it to e mail it doesn t belong in sci space bill higgins beam jockey in a churchyard in the valley fermi national accelerator laboratory where the myrtle doth entwine bitnet higgins fnal bitnet there grow roses and other posies internet higgins fnal fnal gov fertilized by clementine span hepnet higgins
