Roger Hunt said:
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The Netscan usenet stats project was originated, in the late '90s, by
a graduate student at UCLA. [*]
I'm not sure what year it became acquired by MSFT.
I checked the msft netscan page for links, such as the "About" page,
but could find no credit given to, nor any mention of, the originator.
Quelle surprise.
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[*] It was from the following netnews post in 1998 where I learned of
the (pre-msft) Netscan project.
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| Subject: Re: Usenet growth
| From: (e-mail address removed) (Splatter)
| Date: 7 May 1998 01:14:57 -0400
| Message-ID: <
[email protected]>
| Newsgroups: mindspring.usenet
|
| +
| +In the publisher's clip for Tale's recent book [1], the statement
| +is made that Usenet is doubling in size every year. On the Supernews
| +site [2], it is stated that Usenet activity and volume is increasing
| +at a rate of 10-15% per month.
| +
| +Just wondering: Has anybody come across any websites that give more
| +detail on growth? (Graphs would be neat, too.)
| +
| +______
| +[1]
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/musenet/index.html
| +[2]
http://www.supernews.com/ispaccount.html
|
|
| MindSpring sent me to the Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference
| <
http://www.cfp98.org> this past February. It was a good set of panelists
| and the perfect intersection of topics on which our Abuse team should be
| conversant.
|
| One of the people I met there gave me the following URL,
| <
http://netscan.sscnet.ucla.edu/>, a sociology grad student's header
| analysis of USENET traffic. It's got neat graphs, too! I've been looking
| for the an opening to plug this site...
|
| Report for 4/4/98 to 5/5/98 Total Last 24 hours
| Newsgroups studied 15055 604
| Newsgroups seen 65025 604
| Posts 9436674 278692
| Posters 1184498 22680
| Threads 5208740 159196
| Hosts 310123 6002
|
| Graphs of:
|
| Number of groups we are seeing for the first time each day
|
| Number of posts each day
|
| Number of posters seen each day
|
| Number of threads started each day
|
| Number of hosts we are seeing for the first time
|
|
|
| STATS
| GROUPS
| POSTS
| POSTERS
| THREADS
| HOSTS
|
|
| You can also view a text version of this information.
|
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