Re: rec.music.gaffa popularity

[Alex Gibbs <arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU>]

Richard Caldwell, nrc@cbemf.att.com writes:
> From article <9312221020.AA15781@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU>, by arg@kilimanjaro.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU (Alex Gibbs):
> > 
> > To find out how many people we actually have posting we'd basically have
> > to do our own data analysis.  As curious as I am I don't think I'm that
...
> the same person.  Based on that, I would estimate that those 5100 posts 
> came from anywhere between 540 and 615 Love-Hounds.

Nice going. :)

> I don't know if there are 35,000 people out there who would call
> themselves "Love-Hounds" but a 60:1 ratio of lurkers to posters
> doesn't seem too hard to believe on a newsgroup.

I think, based on how they detect a newsgroup "reader", that there are
a lot less lurkers.  I know I accidentally or intentionally go into
lots of newsgroups only once and never do again.  I think regular
lurkers are definitely Love-Hounds, just like readers of a magazine.
The number of "Love-Hounds" is in constant flux but 35,000 is sort of
an improbable maximum limit.  Given this and that we have had roughly
600 posters over a *year*, I think the number of "Love-Hounds" can
only be speculated as likely being somewhere between 1,000 and 15,000
on average.  This is, of course, utter nonsense, and isn't to be
believed.

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