Eight statistics about Usenet use and abuse

  1. Average number of netnews readers per site: 86
  2. Estimated percentage of Internet users who read news: 31.14%
  3. Average Usenet traffic per day (in megabytes): 189
  4. Average Usenet traffic per day (in number of messages): 72,755
  5. Presumed size of overall Usenet network: 180,000 sites
  6. Average age of articles are kept online: 9 days
  7. Average amounct of disk space used by news: 340 megabytes
  8. Estimated worldwide disk space used by news: 61 terabytes

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