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From: mark@cbosgd.UUCP
Newsgroups: news.stargate
Subject: Re: response to questions about Stargate Experimental Subscriptions
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Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 13:36:58 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb 25 13:36:58 1987
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In article <562@oliveb.UUCP> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry F Aguirre) writes:
>Lets be generous and call this the 15% solution.  Is it worth the cost
>of time and equipment setting all this up to get just 15% of the news.

Actually, the moderated groups make up about 30% of the total volume,
averaged out over time.  You've evidently looked at one unrepresentative
window, when a few unmoderated groups got very big, and when some of
the moderated groups didn't have any traffic.  For example, the mod.map
posting is about to occur, so it didn't show up in this window.

If you compare signal and noise, I think you'll find that considerably
more than 30% of the signal is in the moderated groups.  I personally
can't keep up with many unmoderated groups, because there is just too
much traffic there, much of limited value.

>I for one am not ready to give up on net.sources, comp.bugs, etc.
>Despite the high noise level I derive significant benefit from them.

We are working on ways to extract the signal from this type of newsgroup
and put it on Stargate.

	Mark