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From: bio_zwbb@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (William Busa)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics,news.groups
Subject: Re: comp.graphics.images
Message-ID: <3323@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 17 Nov 89 12:48:03 GMT
Followup-To: comp.graphics
Organization: Dept. of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University
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	It would seem that the most serious objection to formation of
comp.graphics.images is the rather pervasive fear that such a group would
simply overwhelm the Net's bandwidth. I share this fear, and therefore at
present I oppose formation of this group. Still, it would be nice if we
had some data, however crude, on which to base our judgement. Therefore, I
suggest that the originator(s) of this proposal post a survey in the
relevant newsgroups concerning the level of use such a group would see. I
envision questions such as "How often would you post to this group?" "How
many images per posting?" "How large?" "What distribution?"

	Now, one can fault such a survey on any number of grounds, and it
would be wrong to take the results as anything but the roughest sketch of
users' present estimation of their intentions, but even as such I think it
would provide useful information. My primary concern is to know whether
such a group would cause a 1% increase in Net traffic, a 10% increase, or
100% or 1000%??? I think a poll would (at best) give us an
order-of-magnitude estimate. Statisticians please save your flames; I
recognize and readily acknowledge that this poll would have no statistical
significance.
-- 
Dr. William Busa, Dept. of Biology, The Johns Hopkins University, Charles
& 34th Sts., Baltimore, MD 21218              (301) 338-8207

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