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From: hazenpa@pyro.ei.dupont.com (Pete Hazen)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: This week's download statistics of garbo, Vaasa, Finland
Message-ID: <1991Mar8.233407.22803@pyro.ei.dupont.com>
Date: 8 Mar 91 23:34:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar4.140951.12045@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> <300@ramecs.UUCP> <1991Mar7.151013.24968@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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In article <1991Mar7.151013.24968@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> bourd@buster.cps.msu.edu (Robert Bourdeau) writes:
>
>In article <300@ramecs.UUCP>, car@ramecs.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
>>From article <1991Mar4.140951.12045@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>, by
>regoli@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (Michael Regoli):
>>> 
>>>>Now, DO WE NEED WEEKLY DOWNLOAD STATISTICS??
>>> 

*** some lines deleted in the interest of brevity ...  but you get the idea ***

>Well, I disagree.  Since Garbo is an active archive site, I am interested
>in the IBM pc binaries that they have added to their archive.  Seems to be 
>less of a waste of bandwidth than all of the discussion about Commander
>Keen (even if it is a good game).
>
>Robert Bourdeau
>bourd@buster.cps.msu.edu
>Michigan State University

I would have to agree with Robert above.  I find the download statistics
to be quite a useful check on the availability of new software at garbo.
Many a time have I found just the utility that I needed because of this
listing.  To satisfy those that complain that they are too frequent I
might suggest that Timo post them bi-weekly instead.  But all should be
reminded that there's an "n" key to bypass such messages (in rn anyway).

Just my $0.02.
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