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From: ugcherk@sunybcs.uucp (Kevin Cherkauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Duplicate Mail
Message-ID: <3137@sunybcs.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 21:49:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: sunybcs.3137
Posted: Fri Apr 24 21:49:26 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 26-Apr-87 20:14:20 EDT
Sender: nobody@sunybcs.UUCP
Reply-To: ugcherk@joey.UUCP (Kevin Cherkauer)
Distribution: comp.sys.apple
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
Lines: 23
Keywords: ARPA, BITNET
Summary: Not Much of a Problem on Other Boards

Just as a point of interest, I have noticed that no other board I have ever
read has so many problems with duplicate mail. I have *also* noticed that
no other board I have ever read has so many people on ARPA and BITNET
instead of USENET. Usually the Usenets predominate by a huge majority, but
here it's the other way around.
  There is probably a connection.

  Why is the distribution of users so different here? A (hazarded) guess:
maybe (just maybe -- no real proof or anything -- just a hunch) the reason
is that on other boards, people subscribe after already having an account
on a large machine for something else, and just happen to notice a newsgroup
that interests them. But here, most users are computer addicts, and have
scraped, clawed, and bitten *on purpose* in order to get access to the net
in any way they could.
  Does this make any sense? I know -- probably not.
  Any of you fit the scrape, claw, bite pattern out there?




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