--- On Mon, 7/14/08, Jonathan Hutchins [email protected] wrote:

On Monday 14 July 2008 11:18:50 am Leo Mauler wrote:

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Most of the posts are binary posts...

What? How do you determine that? Did you download 20,000 groups and count by hand?

Ever since I started quoting NetNews statistics, the source I'm quoting from downloads all the NetNews groups 240 times daily and counts by computer.

Of the NetNews daily postings, currently only 0.2% are text-only posts, which is actually a dip in the number of text-only posts (down from 0.3%). Perhaps TWC had more text-only newsgroup users than anyone expected (though that, unlike the NetNews posting statistics, is merely speculation).

I think we've had enough imaginary statistics in this "discussion".

My statistics have never been "imaginary" in this discussion.

If you cite a statistic from here out, cite a source.

Jonathan, I've been posting a source since I started quoting statistics, the source I get all my NetNews numbers from.

www.newsadmin.org

The direct link to the type of messages posted on NetNews is at http://www.newsadmin.org/msgtype.htm. This is updated daily. The current total number of daily NetNews posts is

The current percentage of NetNews posts (as of this E-mail) which are text-only is 0.2%.

As of this E-mail date and time:

The current percentage of jpeg/gif postings is: 50.7% The current percentage of par/rar postings is: 17.2% The current percentage of mp3 postings is: 1.1% The current percentage of avi/mpeg postings is: 0.6% The current percentage of exe/zip postings is: 0.6%

Also note that Newsadmin.org does not open RAR files to determine their contents, so the jpeg/gif/avi/mpeg/mp3 numbers could be slightly underestimated.