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

Talk: Propogation, etc

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.

   The two groups are somewhat different.  The alt group has more posts, 
probably due more to what people assume is my delay in getting the 
articles posted to rec.arts.ascii.

   Actually I post articles several times a day.  But since articles 
weren't sent from the poster's site, it doesn't give the poster a false 
sense of immediate propogation as they would get from posting to an 
unmoderated group.

   So 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.

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Subject: Talk: Propogation, etc
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