From: suopanki@phoenix.oulu.fi (Heikki Suopanki) Subject: Re: How many Linux Users are there? Date: 21 May 1992 14:52:04
>>>>> On 21 May 92 03:21:26 GMT, alan@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Al Petrofsky) said:
Al> Enclosed below is the April usenet ratings report for selected *.os.*
Al> groups. It estimates alt.os.linux readership at 23,000, and
Al> comp.os.linux readership at 20,000. comp.os.minix is still ahead at
Al> 43,000, but I predict this won't last long.
Comp.os.linux has just been created so the propagation is low (47%)
compared to comp.os.minix (82%). It takes 2-3 months before a new
newsgroup gets a full propagation.
There are however more messages in this group and Linux gets many many
new users everyday, so I think we will "beat" minix newsgroup very soon.
Al> +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
Al> | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
Al> | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
Al> | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
Al> | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
Al> | | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
Al> | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
Al> | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
Al> | | | | | | | | who read this group.
Al> V V V V V V V V
Al> 194 43000 856 82% 259 1065.8 3% 0.04 1.8% comp.os.minix
Al> 515 20000 388 47% 1114 2065.4 11% 0.10 0.8% comp.os.linux
-Heikki