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From: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Traffic
Summary: Duplicate messages inflated the figures
Message-ID: <914@tardis.Tymnet.COM>
Date: 17 Jan 90 09:05:38 GMT
References: <1990Jan13.003453.3102@agate.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jms@tardis.Tymnet.COM (Joe Smith)
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In article <1990Jan13.003453.3102@agate.berkeley.edu> c60c-4ay@e260-4c (Raja S Kushalnagar) writes:
>TOP 40 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY TRAFFIC VOLUME(Dec 89)
 rank                articles kbytes
:  2 22000   913   97%   300 4185.8     1%  0.34    3.4%  comp.os.minix
:  4 34000  1399   97%  1764 3012.6     8%  0.16    5.2%  comp.sys.amiga
:  7 61000  2483   97%  1672 2701.0    15%  0.08    9.2%  comp.sys.mac
: 10 71000  2916   98%  1505 2424.8    17%  0.06   10.8%  comp.sys.ibm.pc
: 14 10000   418   76%   177 2180.9    10%  0.31    1.5%  comp.os.os2
: 24 32000  1318   97%  1092 1727.7     3%  0.10    4.9%  comp.sys.atari.st
: 27 22000   892   96%   841 1681.2     3%  0.14    3.3%  comp.os.vms

The stats for December include all the duplicate articles reposted from
udel.edu.  I know I didn't read 3.01 megabytes of comp.sys.amiga postings.
After junking the reposts, I think it was between 2.0 and 2.5 megabytes.
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