Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site gymble.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!fred From: fred@gymble.UUCP (Fred Blonder) Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b Subject: Re: What's being read? Message-ID: <61@gymble.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 16:20:22 EST Article-I.D.: gymble.61 Posted: Thu Feb 7 16:20:22 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 07:55:25 EST References: <362@wnuxb.UUCP> <426@grendel.UUCP> Organization: U of Maryland, Laboratory for Parallel Computation, C.P., MD Lines: 37 Xref: seismo net.news.adm:263 net.news.b:949 From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio) . . . I saw a question asking whether it was possible to determine what news on a site is actually being read. . . . Fred Blonder at umcp-cs wrote s subscriber shell -- reports how many subscribers each news group has by looking at everyone's .newsrc file. We run it once a week at night. Contact him (or maybe he'll (re-) post it?) . . . I just posted it to net.sources. It's article 60@gymble. This generates a list of the form: net.announce 30 net.general 28 net.announce.newusers 27 net.arch 9 net.ai 8 net.jokes 8 net.news.adm 8 . . . The number on each line is the number of people who have that newsgroup listed in their .newsrc file. It doesn't attempt to determine if they actively read the newsgroup. Don't tell him I sent you. I'll get you for this. ;-) -- Fred Blonder (301) 454-7690 Fred@Maryland.{ARPA,CSNet} harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred