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From: CSvax:Pucc-H:acg@pur-ee.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Statistics are only useful if...
Message-ID: <247@pucc-h>
Date: Fri, 26-Aug-83 17:44:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: pucc-h.247
Posted: Fri Aug 26 17:44:18 1983
Date-Received: Mon, 29-Aug-83 01:23:23 EDT
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
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	I don't want to re-open the discussion on the relative merits of
	the news statistics, put I have a related point that I feel needs
	to be resolved.  The latest statistics listing shows the greatest
	number of articles coming from a site "pur-ee.UUCP (PUCC)".

	I hate to be the one to mention this, but the site description is
	an impossibility.  The "pur-ee" machine is run by the Purdue
	University Engineering Computer Network while PUCC is an acronym
	for the Purdue University Computing Center.  Although both
	organizations are part of a greater whole, they still have two
	completely different managements.  This is akin to grouping all
	of the Bell sites in one line item, which would surely make the
	rest of the net look puny in comparison.

	I hope whoever is dumping these statistics on the net will take
	this to heart and be a little more careful with the arbitrary
	grouping of machines into "mega-sites".

			- Jeff Schwab	<...!pur-ee!pucc-h:acg>
			  Purdue University Computing Center