Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!uthub!ecf!me!utradio!utmanitou!lsuc!mnetor!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!hoptoad!gnu From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP Newsgroups: news.misc Subject: Re: I want my Net dot Sources. (You've got it!) Message-ID: <2264@hoptoad.uucp> Date: Fri, 5-Jun-87 07:40:38 EDT Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2264 Posted: Fri Jun 5 07:40:38 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 8-Jun-87 05:36:14 EDT References: <6170@auspyr.UUCP> Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco Lines: 41 In article <6170@auspyr.UUCP>, joe@auspyr.UUCP (Joe Angelo) writes: > For sure I'm not the first to complain about this... but I really miss > net.sources. ...Can we have it back!? Or do we need to start an underground > news group!? I have actually started an underground newsgroup for unmoderated sources, but I had a better idea. Check out this excerpt from the May readership stats: +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide. | +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population | | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all | | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month) | | | | +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month) | | | | | +-- Participation ratio | | | | | | +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader | | | | | | | +-- Share: % of newsreaders | | | | | | | | who read this group. V V V V V V V V 1 25000 1977 77% 1 1.5 0 0.00 13.8% news.announce.important 2 22000 1729 97% 618 951.5 28 0.21 12.1% comp.sys.ibm.pc 3 22000 1715 90% 142 251.2 6 0.05 12.0% misc.consumers.house 4 20000 1559 70% 2 1.2 0 0.00 10.9% net.sources The group the backbone just couldn't kill -- net.sources -- is getting to 70% of the sites, and has the 4th largest readership of any newsgroup. So post your unmoderated sources there. I just did. And if you don't have net.sources on your machine, create it, and make sure your feed is feeding it. 70% of the net has it, why should you miss out? WARNING: don't talk in it. Post your talk to comp.sources.d. Post your SOURCES to net.sources. Forgetting that is how we got in this trouble in the first place. Post your binaries to /dev/kmem, that's where they belong. When Rich recovers from overdosing on drug tests, we can go back to sending the Quality stuff to him. Til then, see you in net.sources! -- Copyright 1987 John Gilmore; you may redistribute only if your recipients may. (This is an effort to bend Stargate to work with Usenet, not against it.) {sun,ptsfa,lll-crg,ihnp4,ucbvax}!hoptoad!gnu gnu@ingres.berkeley.edu