From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,c80861c7209231ac X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 10eb76,c80861c7209231ac X-Google-Attributes: gid10eb76,public X-Google-Thread: 114917,c80861c7209231ac X-Google-Attributes: gid114917,public From: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) Subject: Re: Number of postings to comp.lang.* newsgroups. Date: 1996/12/02 Message-ID: <57uku7$7je@srv13s4.cas.org>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 201868937 references: <56ti81$e0u@pea.csc.calpoly.edu> <32935F3C.17F8@sn.no> content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII organization: Nedriv Software and Shoe Shiners, Uninc. mime-version: 1.0 reply-to: lvirden@cas.org newsgroups: comp.lang.tcl,comp.lang.asm.x86,comp.lang.ada originator: lwv26@cas.org (Larry W. Virden) x-newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test45 (19 Oct 96) Date: 1996-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: According to Tore Lund : :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% ! -- :s Larry W. Virden INET: lvirden@cas.org :s <*> O- "We are all Kosh." :s Unless explicitly stated to the contrary, nothing in this posting should :s be construed as representing my employer's opinions.