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From: ray@philmtl.philips.ca (Raymond Dunn)
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Subject: Re: Report Card on the success of the group creation guidelines
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Date: 20 Sep 89 23:09:00 GMT
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In article <17735@looking.on.ca> brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) writes:
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>My conclusion?  Of all the groups created in almost the last couple of years,
>only misc.consumers and a couple of special comp groups can be claimed to
>be any sort of success.

Equating "success" with the number of readers per machine is, I suppose,
appropriate on Clarinet.  I doubt whether a majority of the many readers
in the sum of the low readership USENET groups would agree.

Some of the groups that I look forward to reading most fall into this
"unsuccessful" criteria.

>It will come as no surprise to anybody that I give the guidelines a D+ in
>this report card, but I have some stats to back it up in this posting.

Which only proves once again, that stats can be twisted to prove any argument,
no matter how unfounded.
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