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From: reid@glacier.ARPA (Brian Reid)
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Subject: Re: Statistics, polls: lan-news surveys
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Date: Sun, 30-Mar-86 02:34:03 EST
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In article <1614@sdcsvax.UUCP> brian@sdcsvax.UUCP (Brian Kantor) writes:

>As one of the authors of the NNTP protocol (RFC977), I can speak with
>some authority on this point: the survey process WILL NOT INCLUDE users
>of the network news reading programs, if it is run on the system where
>they read news.

The most recent version of arbitron, which I posted to net.sources a few
days ago, handles this case properly. I'd like to suggest that the ability
to measure readership is an important enough property of a news sytem that
perhaps future revisions of NNTP ought to include some scheme for copying
/usr/lib/news/active (or its equivalent) to the local machine.

Brian
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