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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: splinter@allink.com (tom cikoski)
Subject: 93 Performance Reviews
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 1993 13:07:51 GMT

Well, my fellow AFU-ers, it's that time of year again.

Yes, it's time to be thinking about how well we did in 1993 and about our 1994 tactical and 5-year strategic plans.

The October figures are in (see below), and although we are ahead of any startrek group, the margin is not a comfortable one.

But I'm sure we're all proud of our performance vis-a-vis sci.skeptic.

But let's not focus on the losers or on the past -- let's look to the future.

Although some of you might consider me a visionary for thinking "Some day ... Number One!", just think about what we might accomplish with just a teensy weensy bit more nudity around here.

Well, first things first. Let's set our sights on alt.sex.bondage for 1994. I'd like to see more ULs involving ropes, belts and chains. Just one a day, or even one a week, and by this time next year we'll be making room in the ol' trophy case for that 33rd place medal.

Now remember to get your 1993 year end performance reviews in to me by December 28 so that I can have the bonus checks out on time this year.

Don't forget --- CHAINS GALORE IN '94!

Path: allink!uupsi!psinntp!rutgers!concert!decwrl!pa.dec.com!reid From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME (OCT 93)
Keywords: arbitron, statistics
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TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced them.

        +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
        |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
        |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
        |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
        |     |     |      |      +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
        |     |     |      |      |      +-- Crossposting percentage
        |     |     |      |      |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      +-- Share: % of newsrders
        |     |     |      |      |      |    |      |   who read this group.
        V     V     V      V      V      V    V      V
   1 240000  3275   56%   737 31428.5     5%  0.12   6.4%  alt.binaries.pictures.erotica 

[...]

11 61000 837 60% 2989 9176.9 39% 0.15 1.6% alt.fan.rush-limbaugh

[...]

33 190000 2598 65% 2353 6352.2 5% 0.04 5.1% alt.sex.bondage

[...]

39 110000 1481 69% 3709 6044.8 18% 0.06 2.9% alt.folklore.urban 40 60000 814 62% 411 6021.9 2% 0.10 1.6% alt.startrek.creative

[...]

188 79000 1080 77% 1429 3583.1 43% 0.06 2.1% sci.skeptic

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