Re: Alt.ascii-art ratings-leap!
From Colin Douthwaite <Col...@equinox.gen.nz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 8 May 1994 19:07 · View full thread
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Jorn Barger (jor...@MCS.COM) wrote: : Alt.ascii-art has only appeared in the Arbitron ratings once, last January, : at which time its propagation was a measly 24% as I recall. Finally, : after many delays, a new Arbitrons-list has been posted to news.lists: : 483 84000 618 44% 1658 5818.1 9% 0.04 1.4% alt.ascii-art : We're the 483 best-read group, with an estimated 84,000 readers. (Based : on a sample that showed 618 actual readers.) : 44% of all sites carry the group (up from 24%, as I recall.) : In April there were 1,658 messages totalling 5.8 megabytes. : 9% were crossposted to other groups (e.g. alt.binaries.pictures.ascii) : Out of every 1000 netnews readers, 14 read the group. The theoretical : 'cost-per-reade' of the group is 4 cents. All the more reason to let this newsgroup freely develop. It is doing just great after only appearing in September 1993. The last thing we want is a _MODERATED_ mainstream newsgroup for ascii-art. In view of the Binary files; ANSI stuff which is (hopefully) uuencoded and the wide variety of picture styles the alt. hierarchy is arguably the very best place for ASCII-ART. The mainstream does not take kindly to Binary postings so they get dumped in the ALT. newsgroups anyway. Long Live alt.ascii-art ( UNMODERATED ). :-) :-) Bye,
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d3707f5ea51b0f3f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-08 13:01:25 PST Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!waikato!canterbury.ac.nz!equinox.gen.nz!equinox!Colin_Douthwaite Subject: Re: Alt.ascii-art ratings-leap! Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art References: <2q6llp$37...@Mercury.mcs.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 021193BETA PL3] From: Col...@equinox.gen.nz (Colin Douthwaite) Message-ID: <Col...@equinox.gen.nz> Date: Mon, 9 May 94 07:07:00 +1200 Organization: Equinox Networks Lines: 33
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