On 11 Sep 2012 16:19:23 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:<2145659BC34045CF96025A669B0B7514@graham>)
[email protected] (Graham Hobbs) wrote:
> Don't forget that there are an unknown (and probably
> unknowable) number of lurkers who read them via Usenet,
but
> are not subscribers.
Does that mean there's no such thing as a even a
guesstimate?
I think there's a tool to tell you how many people access a
newsgroup via Google. To find out how many people read a
newsgroup via newsreaders would be quite a chore. Possibly
you'd have to poll every news server. That's assuming that
they keep those statistics, and that they'd give you the
information.
There would also be duplication. I subscribe to the
listserve as nomail, and read it threaded via Usenet.
I know there are at least some nonsubscribers who read via
Usenet, because occasionally one posts a question. It's
easy for me to tell because those questions don't have the
subscribe / signoff instructions at the bottoms of the
messages.
Would 'lurkers' imply nasties?
No.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lurker
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