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Did I miss the Era of GA?
Jim Logajan wrote in
: Newps wrote: Larry Dighera wrote: the world doesn't see any of it. Perhaps I'm overlooking something, but upon what do you base that opinion? There's maybe 50 people here. Even if there are several times that that never post, highly unlikely, this group, as any group, is irrelavant. Your estimate is _way_ low. According to this site: http://netscan.research.microsoft.com/ReportCard.aspx there were 850 distinct posters to this group so far this year. And there were 2264 distinct posters to this group in 2006. It would take an awful lot of duplicate handles to reduce the count of distinct people to the 50 range. And Google Groups alone counts 1088 people subscribed to the group via its interface to Usenet: http://groups.google.com/groups/dir?...23835,16823723 &expand= 1 And the count of lurkers who only read is unknown - though I've heard ratios of anywhere from about 5-to-1 to 50-to-1 for other groups where someone tried to make estimates (presumably by running stats on NNTP traffic or in the old days, maybe via root scans of people's .newsrc?) In fact it should be possible to get a ballpark estimate of the lurker-to- active ratio by counting the number of distinct posters who posted from google.com and dividing the 1088 number by that count. Therefore it seems reasonable to claim that there are several thousand people who read this newsgroup. It might even reach into the ten thousand range. whoo hoo! Bertie |
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