1.3. Sci.med.aids distribution.
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This article is from the AIDS FAQ, by Dan Greening with numerous contributions by others.
1.3. Sci.med.aids distribution.
Sci.med.aids is distributed as a USENET newsgroup, where it has
approximately 40,000 readers. At one time USENET was carried
primarily at research and educational institutions, but that is
changing; a number of commercial services now carry USENET.
Here is a breakdown of comparable newsgroups, for the month of
June 1994. You can obtain a full list of network traffic by
anonymous ftp from
ftp.uu.net:/usenet/news.lists/USENET_Readership_report_for_Jun_94.Z
+-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
| +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
| | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
| | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
| | | | +-- Recent traffic (megabytes per month)
| | | | | +-- Crossposting percentage
| | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/rdr
| | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
| | | | | | | | who read this group.
V V V V V V V V
54 130000 1387 72% 6769 10.4 12% 0.08 2.8% soc.motss
72 120000 1130 79% 3396 5.0 17% 0.05 2.3% sci.med
86 110000 1301 63% 4001 7.1 13% 0.06 2.6% alt.drugs
139 95000 947 77% 4898 7.8 42% 0.09 1.9% sci.skeptic
156 89000 870 78% 1282 1.7 37% 0.02 1.8% sci.psychology
243 75000 862 67% 4057 9.4 15% 0.11 1.7% talk.abortion
515 51000 512 76% 485 1.6 2% 0.03 1.0% sci.med.aids
553 49000 487 77% 135 0.3 17% 0.01 1.0% sci.med.physics
577 47000 514 70% 257 1.2 0% 0.02 1.0% soc.feminism
653 43000 611 54% 3917 2.2 77% 0.04 1.2% alt.feminism
657 43000 506 65% 770 1.3 56% 0.03 1.0% talk.politics.drugs
791 36000 602 46% - - - - 1.2% alt.homosexuality
885 33000 363 69% 553 0.7 54% 0.02 0.7% sci.anthropology
981 30000 323 70% 680 1.0 9% 0.03 0.7% sci.med.nutrition
1746 11000 210 38% 53 0.1 6% 0.01 0.4% bionet.molbio.hiv
1821 10000 153 50% 205 0.3 6% 0.02 0.3% alt.support.cancer
1847 9700 198 37% 158 0.2 7% 0.01 0.4% bionet.immunology
1870 9400 142 50% 136 0.2 20% 0.01 0.3% sci.med.radiology
Sci.med.aids is also distributed as electronic mail by the AIDS
listserv. Mail is not as convenient a way to read sci.med.aids as is a
newgroup, but mail is available at more sites (including Compuserve,
America Online, MCImail, ATTmail and many institutions which have
Internet gateways).
In additional to these primary distributions, sci.med.aids is
redistributed by various bulletin boards and mail gateways.
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