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From: avolio@grendel.UUCP (Frederick M. Avolio)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.b
Subject: Re: What's being read?
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Date: Wed, 6-Feb-85 20:49:44 EST
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> Somewhere, I saw a question asking whether it was possible to determine what
> news on a site is actually being read.  I would love to be able to find out
> that there are only 12-18 newsgroups actually used by my people.  It would
> make it much easier to be innocuous in terms of disk space and cycles used.

Fred Blonder at umcp-cs wrote s subscriber shell -- reports how many
subscribers each news group has by looking at everyone's .newsrc file.
We run it once a week at night.  Contact him (or maybe he'll (re-)
post it?) at Electronic-Address: decvax!harpo!seismo!umcp-cs!fred
Don't tell him I sent you.
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Fred Avolio      {decvax,seismo}!grendel!avolio      301/731-4100 x4227