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From: webber@topaz.rutgers.edu (Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc Administrivia: Welcome!
Message-ID: <13649@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 3-Aug-87 03:29:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: topaz.13649
Posted: Mon Aug  3 03:29:22 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Aug-87 00:49:23 EDT
References: <3708@ncoast.UUCP>
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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Summary: minor corrections

In article <3708@ncoast.UUCP>, allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) writes:
> This is the monthly Info posting for comp.sources.misc.  Hopefully, any
> questions you have will be answered here; if they are not, send mail to
> me (allbery@ncoast.UUCP), the moderator.

NOTE:  I definitely thank such postings are a good idea and thank the
moderator for taking the time to make them.

> The moderated comp.sources.misc replaced the unmoderated net.sources in May
> 1987.  This was done by the Usenet backbone in response to the observed fact
> that net.sources was close to 90% NON-sources.  ...

Only if you think 70% is close to 90%.  Incidently, such statistics
are actually rather messy since the postings on net.sources were quite
episodic (I used the last 6 months to get my stats).  Much more
interesting would be to look at it in terms of percentage of the
bytes.  Any way, clearly the old set-up was producing more sources
than the new.

---- BOB (webber@aramis.rutgers.edu ; rutger!aramis.rutgers.edu!webber)