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From: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick)
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Subject: Re: The responsibilities of volunteers
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Date: 18 Dec 90 02:23:55 GMT
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Clarification:

From article <1990Dec10.073955.28681@athena.mit.edu>, by jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan I. Kamens):
> 
>   Getting back to the subject at hand, I did have some doubt about Dobnick's
> calculations, mainly because I don't think he took into account the fact that
> there's a huge block of sources right in the earliest part of the
> comp.sources.unix archives that were *not* posted while Rich was moderator. 
> Although I'm not certain that Dobnick counted those in his calculations, I
> believe that he did; hence, the validity of the statistics were questionable
> in my mind; hence the use of the word "purports."

I took pains to start my count after Rich assumed the moderatorship of
c.s.u.   The exact date was a little fuzzy, (I based it on the documented
moderator in the "index" files in the uunet archives), so I may be off by
a month.  I believe I was accurate to within a single month, however.  

I also didn't count (most) items that were obviously "bug fix" patches to
programs, *and* that were labelled as such.  (One or two exceptions may
exist.  I *did* consider a new version to be an independent posting,
though.)

I hope this clarifies things a bit.
-- 
John G Dobnick  (JGD2)
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