Re: Talk: Propogation, etc

Dan C. Haman (dha...@nmsu.edu) wrote:

> 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.  

The Net being a virtual anarchy it is virtually impossible to "go 
figure" anything logically.

Propagation of any newsgroup ultimately depends on the personal 
decisions of the individual Site Administrators at the hundreds of 
thousands of Net access sites on Planet Earth.  

The result is that some sites will carry both alt. groups and rec. 
groups and other sites will carry only one or the other - that's why 
you see very variable % propagation figures.  

Newsgroup readership numbers finally depend on both propagation and 
how individual Net users regard each newsgroup.  

In general the readership statistics show that mainstream newsgroups 
( The Big 7 - which includes "rec" groups ) do have higher 
propagation than Alt groups but this conclusion is only very general 
and the reality is that there is wide variation in propagation 
levels from group to group. It therefore does NOT follow that change 
from an Alt to Rec ( or any other mainstream hierarchy ) will 
automatically ensure either higher propagation or higher readership.  


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