Talk: Propogation, etc

Colin Douthwaite (Col...@equinox.gen.nz) wrote:
: Bob Allison (bob...@wwa.com) wrote:
: : 
: : In article <3hvn6p$t0...@gagme.wwa.com>, Felix Lee <fle...@cse.psu.edu> wrote:
: : >
: : >>   +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
: : >>   |    +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
: : >>   |    |                                +-- Share: % of newsrders
: : >>   |    |                                |   who read this group.
: : >> 85000  48%  1255     3.6     9%  0.02   1.2%  alt.ascii-art
: : >> 31000  54%   349     1.5    19%  0.03   0.4%  rec.arts.ascii


: : >weird.  rec.arts.ascii has better propagation but lower readership.
: : >my guess is one big reason is alt.ascii-art comes alphabetically
: : >near the top of the newsgroup list.


: Yep, you've got it Felix - alt.ascii-art IS the TOPS !  Yaay !!!  

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: > the alt group gets more posts, which in turn gets more 
: > readers.  On the other hand, the rec group is probably more 
: > popular with busy people who like a group with clear subject 
: > lines.  I imagine it will always be that way.  

: The real test and comparison may come if and when r.a.a becomes an 
: unmoderated newsgroup, although the alt. group will suffer from the 
: propagation problem which is common to all alt. groups.  

: It is clear from the propagation statistics that neither group has a 
: monopoly on access sites and reader access must be limited for many 
: people. What is unknown is whether the same sites carry both groups 
: - if they do then we have a fairly direct comparison of the two.  

: Bye,

Someone told me that more people could get to the rec groups, or that the
alt group was restricted somehow, I'm not sure which, but if that's true I
would have thought that the rec group would get more responses and posts
and all.  In fact, that is the reason another group I'm in is changing to
a rec group.  Go figure.

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