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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
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Subject: Re: more interim results from worldwide net readership poll
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Date: Tue, 11-Mar-86 23:39:10 EST
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> I now have data from 0.4% of the network for newsgroup readership.
> If you don't think these numbers are fair, then please run "arbitron -m"
> on your system (I've posted it twice in the last couple of days).

  If you expect this to be a standard for the network, you are going
to need to post versions which do not depend on the Bourne shell.
We don't have a working version of it here, at least not one that will
parse your program. We are a backbone site. Therefore you cannot
hold your data up as a standard for the whole net unless you are prepared
to do a lot more work. In our case, a csh version would suffice, but I'm
sure there are other sites (V6, micros, etc.) that couldn't handle
that either. So none of this 'if you don't like my data, run my program'
stuff, at least not until you have a program everyone can run.

--Greg
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