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From: bogstad@brl-smoke.ARPA (William Bogstad )
Newsgroups: soc.women
Subject: Re: Do We Really NEED This Group? (crossposting levels)
Message-ID: <4195@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 26-Sep-86 23:50:44 EDT
Article-I.D.: brl-smok.4195
Posted: Fri Sep 26 23:50:44 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 30-Sep-86 00:46:40 EDT
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Reply-To: bogstad@brl.arpa (William Bogstad (JHU|mike) <bogstad>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <982@hou2g.UUCP> scott@hou2g.UUCP (Ma-Ma-Ma-Max Ma-Ma-Max Headroom) writes:
>
>Well, after attempting to get through all the articles in this group,
>I've noticed something interesting.  Roughly 2 % of the articles here
>on net.women were NOT cross-posted to/from somewhere else.  Why don't we
>just eliminated the group?  Unless you want to read about business
>letter salutations, everything on here can be read in net.singles,
>net.religion.jewish, or the occasional foray into net.jokes. :-)
>
>Seriously, do you think this observation has escaped the notice of
>the "powers that be", and their net.reorganization?  Let's cut down
>on the cross-posting, OK?

	I agree with your comments about reducing cross posting, but
I have to dispute your figures.  I am reading your message using rn in
the newsgroup "soc.women" and when I entered the group there were
approximately 130 messages.  I executed the command: /Newsgroups:.*,/hj
which kills all mesages which have commas in their Newsgroups line, i.e.
all cross-posted messages.  There were 46 messages after this command
completed.  I think this level of cross-posting is far to high, but it is
a far cry from 2%.

				Bill Bogstad
				bogstad@hopkins-eecs-bravo.arpa