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From: car@ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: This week's download statistics of garbo, Vaasa, Finland
Message-ID: <300@ramecs.UUCP>
Date: 7 Mar 91 03:48:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.140951.12045@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Organization: RAMECS, Warren, MI
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From article <1991Mar4.140951.12045@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli):
> 
>>Now, DO WE NEED WEEKLY DOWNLOAD STATISTICS??
> 
>>If every single FTP site in the net that has IBM PC material would
>>send their stats to c.b.i.p.d.. I mean, is garbo.uwasa.fi so special
>>site that its statistics are a MUST-TO-READ to every net.person ? Why
>>we don't have here SIMTEL20 stats? ftp.funet.fi? Just wondering..
> 
> Applause, applause!  I've been meaning to post something like this for
> quite some time.  I find the information a total waste of network
> resources.  

I've been think about posting something about the download statistics too.

This newsgroup should be used for discussing the IBM PC binaries which are
posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc. That's why I read this newsgroup.

I'm not interested in anyone else's download/FTP statistics.

And besides, unless you collect the statistics from a significant cross-
section of the downloading/FTPing sites, you really can't tell what is really
generally popular. What's popular in Finland isn't necessarilly what's
popular in Michigan.

If someone feels that they must share their download/FTP statistics, try
comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc or something else.

I think that this newsgroup should be used for discussing the
comp.binaries.ibm.pc postings.


car.
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