Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ucla-cs!zen!ucbvax!decvax!decwrl!pyramid!uccba!hal!ncoast!allbery From: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: comp.sources.misc Administrivia: Welcome! Message-ID: <4089@ncoast.UUCP> Date: Fri, 7-Aug-87 21:07:04 EDT Article-I.D.: ncoast.4089 Posted: Fri Aug 7 21:07:04 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 9-Aug-87 11:14:57 EDT References: <3708@ncoast.UUCP> <13649@topaz.rutgers.edu> Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) Followup-To: comp.sources.d Organization: Cleveland Public Access UN*X, Cleveland, Oh Lines: 25 As quoted from <13649@topaz.rutgers.edu> by webber@topaz.rutgers.edu (Webber): +--------------- | > 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. +--------------- Not so clear. I _still_ remember net.sources before comp.sources.misc. I also maintain that measuring it by bytes is worthless: I can't run a byte, I have to run an entire source. This basically means an article. Therefore, the correct measure is by number of articles; and here it's clear that by articles, net.sources carried far more non-source than source. -- Brandon S. Allbery, moderator of comp.sources.misc and comp.binaries.ibm.pc {{harvard,mit-eddie}!necntc,well!hoptoad,sun!cwruecmp!hal}!ncoast!allbery ARPA: necntc!ncoast!allbery@harvard.harvard.edu Fido: 157/502 MCI: BALLBERY <>