Xref: utzoo news.groups:12532 news.misc:3648 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!nuchat!sugar!ficc!peter 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 Lines: 14 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. Biz: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. Fun: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' "That is not the Usenet tradition, but it's a solidly-entrenched U delusion now." -- brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)