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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!noc.near.net!hri.com!spool.mu.edu!olivea!sgigate!rutgers!noao!amethyst!organpipe.uug.arizona.edu!news
  2. From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
  3. Newsgroups: alt.fan.warlord
  4. Subject: news.lists post Reveals The Truth
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan22.185313.16733@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
  6. Date: 22 Jan 93 18:53:13 GMT
  7. Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
  8. Reply-To: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
  9. Organization: University of Arizona
  10. Lines: 38
  11.  
  12. While rummaging around in news.lists recently, I came across the following
  13. interesting information:
  14.  
  15. #Subject: Usenet article size statistics -- December 1992
  16. #Summary: statistical study of usenet articles
  17. #Keywords: article, statistics, size
  18. #Date: 6 Jan 93 12:44:28 GMT
  19.  
  20. [lots o' stuff deleted...]
  21.  
  22. here's the good part----------------------------------------------+-------+
  23.                                                                   |       |
  24.                                                                   v       v
  25. #       User address                          #msg        #kb    %sig  %quote
  26. #00000. .edu                                 48685  101303.08    2.50    5.24
  27. #00001. .com                                 31731   62889.73    3.51    6.81
  28. #00003. .ca                                   7289   13560.05    3.83    6.21
  29. #00005. .uk                                   4975    8802.13    3.69    6.40
  30. #00006. .de                                   4223    8458.87    3.60    7.07
  31. #00007. .au                                   3502    7555.75    3.74    7.84
  32. #00009. .uucp                                 3446    6000.70    3.98    7.38
  33. #00011. .se                                   1661    3628.61    3.51    5.80
  34. #00012. .us                                   1805    3353.17    3.21    7.12
  35. #00013. .nl                                   1664    3336.01    3.21   10.04
  36. #00014. .mil                                  1405    3205.18    3.41    7.75
  37. #00017. .nz                                   1309    2482.88    3.64    7.58
  38. #00018. .fr                                    833    1787.21    3.44    4.03
  39. #00020. .ch                                    794    1460.89    3.50    3.55
  40. #00024. .it                                    232     509.97    9.62    3.51
  41. #00027. .be                                    239     484.01    8.22    1.56
  42.  
  43. [also deleted anyone who fell under 3% sig... (except .edu)]
  44.  
  45. To no-one's surprise, edu sites are uncontested champions both in number of
  46. messages posted as well as sheer bandwidth.  But looking at the rest of the
  47. list, you can see they're pikers when it comes to %sig and %quote...
  48.  
  49. Dave "edu and proud of it" Schaumann
  50.