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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: A short explanation as to why people object to net.*.mac
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Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 19:30:44 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 19:30:44 1985
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> 	The large volume of net.*.mac should show how valuable these groups
> are to a relatively large part of the net.
The volume says nothing about how large a part of the net use the groups.

> I don't think that an insignificant number of people could generate this
> many postings to net.*.mac.
But they can and do.

Take a look at the Rick Adam's statistics for the past few months.
The mac stuff has been top group (measured by total volume not
number of articles).  At the same time the top 25 sites and top
25 users lists show that one or two places/people posted most of
that volume.
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From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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