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From: mcastle@mcs213f.cs.umr.edu (Mike Castle {Nexus})
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: This week's download statistics of garbo, Vaasa, Finland
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Date: 9 Mar 91 04:31:04 GMT
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The moderator of wuarchive.wustl.edu (can't think of his name off hand) posts
a similiar list to the BITNET LISTSERV discussion PCSERV-L on a monthly basis.
Last semester, someone complained about those posts as well.  To solve the
problem, he took a vote.

I don't remember exactly how many people responded, but I do know that there 
was only ONE (1) vote AGAINST the monthly posting.

Anyway, I have 2 suggestions.

1)  Cut the postings back to every 2 weeks.  This is still frequent enough to
    keep everyone up to date on what's popular, and infrequent enough to not
    bother people who are to lazy to put the subject in their kill file.

2)  Take a vote similiar to the one done on PCSERV-L or those done for new
    newsgroups.  Use that to decide whether or not to continue.

Sorry if these have been posted already, but I'm a *BIT* behind in news (130+
articles :-).

Maybe these stats could be posted to comp.archives.... I don't remember seeing
such lists in that group... maybe we could start a trend.
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