Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site fisher.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!princeton!astrovax!fisher!bae From: bae@fisher.UUCP (Shiva the Destroyer) Newsgroups: net.followup Subject: Re: von rospach's ad hominem attack Message-ID: <531@fisher.UUCP> Date: Thu, 14-Feb-85 18:36:54 EST Article-I.D.: fisher.531 Posted: Thu Feb 14 18:36:54 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 15-Feb-85 05:46:40 EST References: <2346@nsc.UUCP>, <444@down.FUN> <33@epsilon.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Institute for the Criminally Inane Lines: 35 Keywords: mediocrity, misinformation, manipulation >Actually, it's rather easy to discover the relative "networthiness" >of Honeyman, Pearlman, etc. Just take a look at the latest net stats >from seismo. Both Honeyman and Pearlman are listed as prodigious >news submitters. A comparison of the distribution of newsgroups >these two send news to is quite revealing. > > Ed Sheppard Well, well, let's see what we have here: No. of % of Rank Articles KBytes Total User 4 13 220.2 2.3% perlman@wanginst.UUCP (Gary Perlman) 64% net.sources 21% net.unix 7% net.cog-eng 7% net.math.stat 6 46 120.6 1.3% chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuqui & MacDuff) 22% net.singles 10% net.micro.mac 6% net.news 6% net.usenix 12 11 58.8 0.6% honey@down.FUN (code 101) 36% net.mail 27% net.rumor 18% net.news 9% net.dcom 9% net.sources Now, if you consider that perlman's net.sources submissions have been composed of retransmissions of menux which he botched the first n^2 times....... -- Brian A. Ehrmantraut Ad Maioram Gloriam Hasturi! UUCP: {allegra, astrovax, princeton, twg} !fisher!bae BELL: (609) 452-8991 / (609) 734-7761 USnail: 184 Little Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544