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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: Statistics, polls: honest, no flames
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Date: Wed, 26-Mar-86 16:10:41 EST
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> net to report in.  For example, there have only been a few entries
> from AT&T -- and none from any of the major sites (ihnp4, cbosgd,

This is the second posting implying that the data from the "major" sites
is important to this readership survey and must be gathered before any
decisions are made.  Why?

The volume of traffic that passes through a site is totally irrelevant
to a survey of newsgroup readership.  The important criteria is the number
of users particularly news readers on the machine.  Some of the most "major"
sites are simply mail and news store and forward machines. (e.g. decvax and
ucbvax)  As such they probably don't have any users let alone users who
read news on them.
-- 
From the TARDIS of Mark Callow
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"Boards are long and hard and made of wood"