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- From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Subject: Political newsgroups on Usenet
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.064950.22653@nntp.hut.fi>
- Sender: usenet@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id)
- Nntp-Posting-Host: lusmu.cs.hut.fi
- Reply-To: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
- Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 06:49:50 GMT
- Lines: 57
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- Alt.activism ranks surprisingly high in the newsgroup statistics -
- though to me it seems that most of the discussion has little to with
- activism but rather "alt.us.politics" as in alternative (meaning
- something like "non-demopublican") U.S. politics.
-
- In any case, it has many interesting articles in it. In case you
- might be interested in other political topics and other newsgroups,
- here's a grep of some political newsgroups (choice of groups biased by
- my personal interests) in the October 1992 statistics:
-
- egrep 'politics|activism|libert|censorship|eff|acad-freedom|privacy'
-
- 23 68000 2120 67% 498 2901.9 48% 0.06 4.4% alt.activism
- 38 58000 1796 70% 4231 12569.8 54% 0.29 3.7% talk.politics.misc
- 193 31000 963 64% 177 465.7 67% 0.02 2.0% alt.censorship
- 195 31000 957 59% 218 825.8 37% 0.03 2.0% alt.activism.d
- 269 26000 823 79% 328 917.1 44% 0.05 1.7% comp.org.eff.talk
- 393 22000 685 57% 117 280.5 12% 0.01 1.4% alt.politics.homosexuality
- 455 20000 619 51% 3138 8055.0 59% 0.40 1.3% alt.politics.elections
- 477 19000 601 68% 868 2251.5 12% 0.15 1.2% talk.politics.guns
- 486 19000 595 69% 718 1840.6 4% 0.13 1.2% talk.politics.mideast
- 487 19000 595 60% 70 250.5 14% 0.02 1.2% alt.privacy
- 554 18000 547 67% 58 117.0 0% 0.01 1.1% comp.society.privacy
- 562 18000 545 46% 2391 6860.4 61% 0.34 1.1% alt.politics.clinton
- 624 16000 505 68% 280 817.2 25% 0.07 1.0% talk.politics.soviet
- 649 16000 491 59% 203 706.8 48% 0.05 1.0% alt.comp.acad-freedom.talk
- 670 16000 483 69% 95 388.3 22% 0.03 1.0% talk.politics.theory
- 693 15000 476 75% 4 60.8 75% 0.01 1.0% comp.org.eff.news
- 768 14000 428 63% 268 632.9 46% 0.05 0.9% talk.politics.drugs
- 789 13000 418 42% 1702 4824.7 70% 0.30 0.9% alt.politics.bush
- 815 13000 407 55% 58 113.8 49% 0.01 0.8% alt.politics.correct
- 824 13000 404 55% 132 466.0 77% 0.04 0.8% alt.society.civil-liberty
- 836 13000 399 41% - - - - 0.8% alt.politics.perot
- 865 12000 381 67% 909 5923.1 27% 0.64 0.8% misc.activism.progressive
- 1099 8900 275 43% 669 1620.9 7% 0.15 0.6% talk.politics.china
- 1131 8300 259 35% 17 30.4 0% 0.00 0.5% alt.aeffle.und.pferdle
- 1171 7800 243 68% 10 41.1 0% 0.01 0.5% soc.politics
- 1172 7800 243 57% 78 244.4 44% 0.03 0.5% talk.politics.space
- 1193 7600 235 28% 326 793.2 20% 0.06 0.5% ca.politics
- 1209 7300 227 37% - - - - 0.5% alt.politics.marrou
- 1250 6800 211 12% 77 311.9 93% 0.01 0.4% clari.news.politics
- 1297 6300 196 33% - - - - 0.4% alt.politics.libertarian
- 1324 6000 186 52% 703 2200.0 2% 0.37 0.4% talk.politics.animals
- 1341 5800 180 26% 35 74.7 3% 0.01 0.4% eunet.politics
- 1387 5200 162 46% 2 2.5 0% 0.00 0.3% alt.society.civil-liberties
- 1389 5200 162 14% 507 1212.2 7% 0.07 0.3% tx.politics
- 1413 5000 154 22% 339 883.8 39% 0.08 0.3% ba.politics
- 1439 4600 143 41% - - - - 0.3% alt.politics.british
- 1443 4500 140 50% 6 307.3 0% 0.07 0.3% alt.comp.acad-freedom.news
- 1480 4000 125 17% 1011 2203.4 25% 0.19 0.3% can.politics
- 1485 4000 123 68% - - - - 0.3% soc.politics.arms-d
- 1548 3000 93 17% 169 318.0 9% 0.03 0.2% ne.politics
- 1577 2400 74 9% 97 397.1 41% 0.03 0.2% or.politics
- 1590 2100 65 23% 17 26.8 0% 0.01 0.1% trial.talk.politics.peace
- 1599 2000 62 14% 202 492.9 1% 0.07 0.1% aus.politics
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- //Jyrki
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