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From: ecl@mtgzy.UUCP (Evelyn C. Leeper)
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Subject: Re: these sites have not filed an arbitron report
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 08:57:02 EST
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In article <11960@decwrl.DEC.COM>, reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid) writes:
> Here is the list of sites that have posted an article to USENET in the last
> 30 days but have not filed an arbitron report. I note with satisfaction that
> about 60% of the complainers come from sites on this list. 
>     4) You are an AT&T site, and therefore have no site administrator and
>        no control over your news software and in fact you're busy chasing
>        down articles about dinettes for sale in New Jersey that got posted to
>        Australia and Japan.
> mtsbb, mtunj.att.com, mtuxj, mtuxo, mtx5a, mtx5c, mtx5d, mtx5e

Well, I am the site administrator for at least some of these and the reason I
haven't set up arbitron yet is that there are only 168 hours in a week.  What
with the recent breakages in the netnews software (patch #10 broke sendbatch;
patch #11 broke expire), I'm spending more time than I should on netnews
anyway.

I think the arbitron statistics are interesting and perhaps even useful, but
not to the extent that I must drop everything else to be sure every site I
administer is running arbitron.  The whole idea is that a sample should be
enough.

					Evelyn C. Leeper
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