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From: mitchell@community-chest.uucp (George Mitchell)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.groups,news.misc,sci.psychology,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Theory of Newsgroup Creation (Corrected)
Keywords: group interests name cost newsgroup mail single transferrable vote
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Date: 8 Nov 89 18:22:40 GMT
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In article <4957@freja.diku.dk> stodol@freja.diku.dk (David Stodolsky) wrote:
`Assumption 3: Interest group creation rate ought to be maximized.
 ^^^^^^^^^^
`Assumption 4: Newsgroup creation ought to be maximized.
 ^^^^^^^^^^
This posting does not address the issue of how the participation in one
newgroup with two related topics would compare with the participation in
two newsgroups with the same topics isolated.  I think that in at least
some instances, creating a new group could reduce total participation
(summation of messages x readers).
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