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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.misc
Subject: Re: Report Card on the success of the group creation guidelines
Message-ID: <6267@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 24 Sep 89 15:16:28 GMT
References: <17735@looking.on.ca>
Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
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In article <17735@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
> In order to find out just how successful groups created under the guidelines
> have been, I decided to look up the readership stats for all groups that
> were not on Brian's readership guidelines near the end of 1987.

Since the guidelines haven't been around that long, that's rather unfair.

comp.unix.i386 has been a sucessful group. It would not have been created
under your alternate guidelines.
-- 
Peter da Silva, *NIX support guy @ Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
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