On 01/11/2021 10:28, John Hall wrote:
> Unfortunately the suggestion that Usenet is dying is, on the face of
> it, supported by the above statistics. I'm afraid there are now only
> a small number of people who will miss it if it goes, [...].

Varies a lot by group. "R.s.c" is getting only around one
post every other day; "u.s.c" about 15 per day [and that's without
counting the spam, which Aioe kindly filters out beforehand], from
over 20 current contributors. If "u.s.c" has the usual ratio, that
implies around 200 readers -- not a huge number, but not negligible
for a UK-only group based around a minority interest. "U.p.m" gets
around 30/day from 132 contributors in the past month, though sadly
most of it is spam [easily KF-ed away]. "U.l.m" gets ~100/day from
75 contributors in the past month, and no spam at all as it's [very
weakly] moderated. Certainly most groups getting less than a post
per day would scarcely be missed [apart from specialist groups such
as "u.p.electoral" -- one v useful/interesting (for those interested
in election results!) post/week]. But other groups are thriving.
For comparison, back in the '80s, we used to wonder how we would
cope when the world /total/, over all groups, reached 100/day, our
computers would be clagged [both CPU and disc storage] by all that
traffic, and there would be far too much to read ....

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In article <slp0o9$l9k$1@gioia.aioe.org>,
Andy Walker <anw@cuboid.co.uk> wrote:
>On 01/11/2021 10:28, John Hall wrote:
>> Unfortunately the suggestion that Usenet is dying is, on the face of
>> it, supported by the above statistics. I'm afraid there are now only
>> a small number of people who will miss it if it goes, [...].
>
> Varies a lot by group. "R.s.c" is getting only around one
>post every other day; "u.s.c" about 15 per day [and that's without
>counting the spam, which Aioe kindly filters out beforehand], from
>over 20 current contributors. If "u.s.c" has the usual ratio, that
>implies around 200 readers -- not a huge number, but not negligible
>for a UK-only group based around a minority interest. "U.p.m" gets
>around 30/day from 132 contributors in the past month, though sadly
>most of it is spam [easily KF-ed away]. "U.l.m" gets ~100/day from
>75 contributors in the past month, and no spam at all as it's [very
>weakly] moderated. Certainly most groups getting less than a post
>per day would scarcely be missed [apart from specialist groups such
>as "u.p.electoral" -- one v useful/interesting (for those interested
>in election results!) post/week]. But other groups are thriving.
>For comparison, back in the '80s, we used to wonder how we would
>cope when the world /total/, over all groups, reached 100/day, our
>computers would be clagged [both CPU and disc storage] by all that
>traffic, and there would be far too much to read ....
>

So what about the recent T20 tournament?

>--
>Andy Walker, Nottingham.
> Andy's music pages: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music
> Composer of the day: www.cuboid.me.uk/andy/Music/Composers/Hummel

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