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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 16 Feb 1995.
Talk: Propogation, etc

Talk: Propogation, etc

>   +-- 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.
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From: fle...@cse.psu.edu (Felix Lee)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.ascii,alt.ascii-art
Subject: Talk: Propogation, etc
Date: 16 Feb 1995 08:24:25 -0600
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