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From: paul@devon.UUCP (Paul Sutcliffe Jr.)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: The 50% rule is in--now what?
Message-ID: <120@devon.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 25-Nov-86 19:10:18 EST
Article-I.D.: devon.120
Posted: Tue Nov 25 19:10:18 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Nov-86 09:58:54 EST
References: <212@cartan.Berkeley.EDU> <751@chinet.UUCP> <4283@ut-ngp.UUCP> <42479@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>
Organization: Devon Computer Services, Allentown, PA
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Summary: a better idea (not Ford)

In article <42479@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV>, rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams) writes:
> Has anyone consider that the reason for the 50% rule is to see how
> many sites have installed 2.11?

Since most "expreienced" posters can circumvent the 50% rule easily,
this probably won't tell you much as to who has 2.11 installed.  Seems
to me a better way would have been to implement a control message
(like senduuname), let's call it ``sendversion'', that would return
the the value of the NEWS_VERSION string.  Shouldn't be too hard, and
would certainly be more accurate than trying to deduce the answer
from the format and content of postings.

-Paul

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