Survey numberof posts on newsgroups

[Bill Baxter]

Jan Hanselaer wrote:
> Hello There
> 
> I'm writing sometheing about the D programming language and I say the  D 
> community is still growing and growing and to proof it I refer to the 
> increasing number of posts on the newsgroups. But it's not that I actually 
> know "in numbers" that it is really growing ... Is there somewhere a survey 
> of the number of posts on the newsgroups? So I can proof it with real data 
> ;-)
> 
> Thanks
> Jan 

Ben hinkle's pages had a graph.  If you could get a hold of him, maybe 
he could share with you the code he used to generate the graphs.

http://home.comcast.net/~benhinkle/dnews.html

I don't know that # of posts really reflects # of users as well as # of 
unique names you find per year.  # of posts is interesting too, though, 
since it does give an idea of the amount of time people are spending on 
D.  Both numbers are useful for getting a picture I think.

--bb