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by **Mikkel Gram-Hanse** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 04:36:14

... To become the registered member number 10.000 at the RSC forums... I
guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the net ?
Hopefully we still manage to weigh quality over mere quantity :)
It's been less than 10 months since we started, and we are STILL not really
done with the website, but we 'll probably get there some day. Cya all at
100.000 ;)

Mikkel Gram-Hansen

http://www.racesimcentral.net/

PS: Also a hand to all our great friends, competitors, colleagues or
whatever one might call the admins of the other big simracing sites, you are
working wonders... we know how much effort and time is involved ;)

by **ymenar** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 06:06:39

> I guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the net

?

No.

Rec.autos.simulators was been read by more then that just in 1995, therefore
it can only exponantially bigger over the years as the number of people on
the Usenet has dramatically increased (even if the curb has been toned down
with the years).

1537 40868 141 59% rec.autos.simulators

Those numbers in order are :

Rank of Usenet NG's
Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
Actual number of readers in sampled population
Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all

Now that the propagation is closer to 100%, it can only be more.

So there, when the number reaches 100,000 you can write here again.

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by **Ian Bel** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:42:43

<ahem> <cough> 11330 registered members.

www.simbin.com ;-)

> ... To become the registered member number 10.000 at the RSC forums... I
> guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the net ?
> Hopefully we still manage to weigh quality over mere quantity :)
> It's been less than 10 months since we started, and we are STILL not
really
> done with the website, but we 'll probably get there some day. Cya all at
> 100.000 ;)

> Mikkel Gram-Hansen

> http://www.racesimcentral.com

> PS: Also a hand to all our great friends, competitors, colleagues or
> whatever one might call the admins of the other big simracing sites, you
are
> working wonders... we know how much effort and time is involved ;)

by **Jason Moy** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:04:48

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 23:42:43 +0100, "Ian Bell"

><ahem> <cough> 11330 registered members.

>www.simbin.com ;-)

You guys suckered people in by making everyone register to get the FIA
GT v3 mod. =)

Glad I did tho, it's fun smacking the kids around on the editing
groups.

Jason

by **Ian Bel** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 11:47:10

Good point :-) We're mercenary!

> On Sat, 21 Sep 2002 23:42:43 +0100, "Ian Bell"

> ><ahem> <cough> 11330 registered members.

> >www.simbin.com ;-)

> You guys suckered people in by making everyone register to get the FIA
> GT v3 mod. =)

> Glad I did tho, it's fun smacking the kids around on the editing
> groups.

> Jason

by **Mikkel Gram-Hanse** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:04:48

WOW that is a lot of simracing freaks !!
Of course you are right, but I think you know what I meant ;)

Pretty interesting statistics btw., do you know how they reach these
estimated numbers ?

Mikkel

> > I guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the
net
> ?

> No.

> Rec.autos.simulators was been read by more then that just in 1995,
therefore
> it can only exponantially bigger over the years as the number of people on
> the Usenet has dramatically increased (even if the curb has been toned
down
> with the years).

> 1537 40868 141 59% rec.autos.simulators

> Those numbers in order are :

> Rank of Usenet NG's
> Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
> Actual number of readers in sampled population
> Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all

> Now that the propagation is closer to 100%, it can only be more.

> So there, when the number reaches 100,000 you can write here again.

> --
> -- Fran?ois Mnard <ymenard>
> -- http://ymenard.cjb.net/
> -- This announcement is brought to you by the Shimago-Dominguez
> Corporation - helping America into the New World...

by **Mikkel Gram-Hanse** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 17:06:22

LOL there goes my reputation for doing at least a little research before I
brag *doh*
Ian the only reason you have gotten so big is 'coz we constantly devote our
newssection to telling everyone how great the guys at SimBin are at
developing mod's ;)

Mikkel

> <ahem> <cough> 11330 registered members.

> www.simbin.com ;-)

> > ... To become the registered member number 10.000 at the RSC forums... I
> > guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the net
?
> > Hopefully we still manage to weigh quality over mere quantity :)
> > It's been less than 10 months since we started, and we are STILL not
> really
> > done with the website, but we 'll probably get there some day. Cya all
at
> > 100.000 ;)

> > Mikkel Gram-Hansen

> > http://www.racesimcentral.com

> > PS: Also a hand to all our great friends, competitors, colleagues or
> > whatever one might call the admins of the other big simracing sites, you
> are
> > working wonders... we know how much effort and time is involved ;)

by **Ian Bel** » Mon, 23 Sep 2002 21:49:29

Is absolutely true Mikkel. I think about 5,000 of our numbers are really
yours, but they got confused as to what site they were at (with all the
SimBin news) and registered with us :-)

Ian

> LOL there goes my reputation for doing at least a little research before I
> brag *doh*
> Ian the only reason you have gotten so big is 'coz we constantly devote
our
> newssection to telling everyone how great the guys at SimBin are at
> developing mod's ;)

> Mikkel

> > <ahem> <cough> 11330 registered members.

> > www.simbin.com ;-)

> > > ... To become the registered member number 10.000 at the RSC forums...
I
> > > guess that makes us the biggest gathering place for simracers on the
net
> ?
> > > Hopefully we still manage to weigh quality over mere quantity :)
> > > It's been less than 10 months since we started, and we are STILL not
> > really
> > > done with the website, but we 'll probably get there some day. Cya all
> at
> > > 100.000 ;)

> > > Mikkel Gram-Hansen

> > > http://www.racesimcentral.com

> > > PS: Also a hand to all our great friends, competitors, colleagues or
> > > whatever one might call the admins of the other big simracing sites,
you
> > are
> > > working wonders... we know how much effort and time is involved ;)

by **ymenar** » Tue, 24 Sep 2002 02:44:35

> WOW that is a lot of simracing freaks !!

Yeah some people estimated that the Usenet readership has quadrupled since
1995 (that would be normal, just remember how sparse the net was back then),
so the number would be around 200,000 per month. The Usenet is clearly
underrated :)

Back then they had surveyed usenet usage from certain servers, and made
statistics out of it. They were lucky to get those numbers from the
companies, I guess.

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by **Jim Seamu** » Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:49:42

One of those 11330 members is me..... but I hardly ever visit the simbin
forums.

I check back there occasionally though in the hope that one day you guys
will start to experiment with some other sims (*ahem* Racer? *ahem*)

:0)

by **Uwe Schuerkam** » Tue, 24 Sep 2002 21:36:27

> WOW that is a lot of simracing freaks !!
> Of course you are right, but I think you know what I meant ;)

> Pretty interesting statistics btw., do you know how they reach these
> estimated numbers ?

It might conicide with the 10,000 GPLRank account (there where
9850 as of last count ;-)

Best,

Uwe

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