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From: bill@persci.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: subscribers script (warning..?)
Message-ID: <405@persci.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:03:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: persci.405
Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:03:47 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 03:49:28 EDT
References: <2161@ukma.UUCP> <2166@ukma.UUCP> <619@decuac.UUCP> <11824@Glacier.ARPA> <451@cuae2.UUCP>
Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan)
Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA
Lines: 11
Summary: 

All this discussion about .newsrc reading script presupposes that every user
maintains his .newsrc file. That is not true at this site. Some people are
subscribed to *everything* and never read news, others drop in on newsgroups
as they will, never subscribing/unsubscribing. 

When we set up accelerated expirations for unread newsgroups (net.flame, etc)
recently, we polled everybody (and read their .newsrc files). There was little
significant correlation between the two sets of results.

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William Swan  {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill