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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
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	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