Re: Fantasy fans...

In message <1he5ck9.nt6it81yetvyyN%mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Michelle Bottorff <mbottorff@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
Patricia C. Wrede <pwrede6492@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm sorry, but you might be able to count the people who post regularly,
> but you can't count the number of people who read it. There are these
> people called "lurkers"...

He's not even counting regular posters. He's just counting folks who signed
up through Google Groups.

Which, given the ratio of regular posters who don't use google and
regular posters who do, suggests we that we have several thousand
lurkers hanging out here watching us.

Although maybe one gets a higher incidence of lurkers through google
than via newsreaders?

I remember seeing estimates of 10 to 100 lurkers for every poster, and that was for the numbers reading (or at least downloading) at the time. It didn't include the numbers reading selected highlights later in the Dejanews archives.

And to go with that, I am but an egg compared with some usenauts, but I still remember a time when it was routine to warn newbies who had just been stupid in public to be aware that there were a lot more people watching them than they might realise.
--
Julia Jones
"We are English of Borg. Your language will be assimilated."
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