Re: Number of postings to comp.lang.* newsgroups.

[lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)]

According to Tore Lund  <tl001@sn.no>:
:Dan Stubbs wrote:
:> 
:> The following is the number of postings (for all time) to the "top
:> twenty" groups in comp.lang.*. I don't believe there is any special
:> significance to this list, but believe it is as interesting as most
:> "top n" lists.
:> 
:> +------+-------+-----------------------------+
:> | rank | #posts| language in comp.lang.*     |
:> +------+-------+-----------------------------+
:>     1.  133,135   comp.lang.c++
:>     2.  125,582   comp.lang.basic.visual.misc
:>     3.  105,277   comp.lang.c
:>     4.   73,312   comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc
:>     5.   53,962   comp.lang.perl.misc
:>     6.   37,853   comp.lang.tcl

Here's another interesting note - the msg being quoted here happens to be
message 51,660 on my system; which means the number of posts listed are
off by almost 50% !

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