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From: dbf@myrias.com (David Ferrier)
Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions
Subject: volume of traffic on the net
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Date: 15 Jan 90 14:30:54 GMT
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Does the bulk of traffic on Usenet originate from teachers and students?

I read a broad cross-section of newsgroups, so was surprised when the
volume of incoming messages dropped to zip in *all* of them last week.
Allowing for a lag to allow for messages written before the end of the
Christmas school break break to be delivered, this drop in message
traffic coincided exactly with school starting.  I observed the same
drop in message traffic last September, when the autumn term commenced.
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David Ferrier                            | computer: a million morons
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