Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site persci.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tikal!cholula!persci!bill From: bill@persci.UUCP Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: subscribers script (warning..?) Message-ID: <405@persci.UUCP> Date: Tue, 17-Sep-85 11:03:47 EDT Article-I.D.: persci.405 Posted: Tue Sep 17 11:03:47 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 19-Sep-85 03:49:28 EDT References: <2161@ukma.UUCP> <2166@ukma.UUCP> <619@decuac.UUCP> <11824@Glacier.ARPA> <451@cuae2.UUCP> Reply-To: bill@persci.UUCP (William Swan) Organization: Summation Inc, Woodinville WA Lines: 11 Summary: All this discussion about .newsrc reading script presupposes that every user maintains his .newsrc file. That is not true at this site. Some people are subscribed to *everything* and never read news, others drop in on newsgroups as they will, never subscribing/unsubscribing. When we set up accelerated expirations for unread newsgroups (net.flame, etc) recently, we polled everybody (and read their .newsrc files). There was little significant correlation between the two sets of results. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!persci!bill Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com