Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!oz.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@oz.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: Articles most often cited in comp.all Message-ID: Date: 14 Nov 89 12:04:49 GMT References: <9200@elsie.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 16 In-reply-to: news@elsie.UUCP's message of 12 Nov 89 18:45:38 GMT In article <9200@elsie.UUCP> news@elsie.UUCP (news) writes: >Rank Count ID > 2 20 <47040@bbn.COM> > 3 20 <2186@ektools.UUCP> > 4 20 <17166@rpp386.cactus.org> > 6 19 <2719@ganymede.inmos.co.uk> ... Please explain how useful these statistics are when more than half of the top 25 are bare message-ids. Considering that the articles being counted *are* in a newsgroup, you should be able to pull a composite Newsgroups line out of the followups, even if the referenced article has expired. If you don't consider that a viable solution, you should shorten your survey period or lengthen your expiration times. -=- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)