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From: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
Newsgroups: net.news.group
Subject: Re: Greg Woods/Brian Reid flaming match (validity and aging)
Message-ID: <62@zeus.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 16:11:06 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 17 16:11:06 1986
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Reply-To: bobr@zeus.UUCP (Robert Reed)
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Regarding the validity and aging of information in the arbitron ratings, on
our local machines (zeus,athena,hercules,teklds) news articles are expired
on a thirty day basis, which means that regardless of the age of the .newsrc
file, arbitron will reflect an accurate and up to date readership.  The only
problem (something that I've noted to Brian) is a bug regarding slow moving
newsgroups, such as mod.movies, where a match between the singlet article
number in the active file and a user's last article number in .newsrc can
give a falsely high reading.