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From: webber@brandx.rutgers.edu (Webber)
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Subject: Re: these sites have not filed an arbitron report
Message-ID: <503@brandx.rutgers.edu>
Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 02:15:50 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 02:15:50 1987
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References: <11960@decwrl.DEC.COM>
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Summary: summary of 2000+ line message

Considering the difficulty many people have reading a message of 100
lines in the same message, I assume most people didn't even bother
reading the recent 2000+ line missive from decwrl.  So, let me
excerp the significant parts:

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. 
> ...
>     3) You are a VMS site or a TOPS-20 site or an IBM site or something like
>        that. Again, what can I say. mod.newprod, or whatever it is called
>        these days since the "reorganization", regularly carries announcements
>        of $5000 Unix boxes  :-)
> ...
> The list:
> ...
> decvax
> decwrl.arpa
> ...

I wonder if Sun would give Digital an educational discount?  

Anyway, it is certainly interesting that the sites of 40% of
``complainers'' continue to participate in this waste of cpu and
bandwidth.

Now what would be really interesting is to see a graph tracking the
number of new arbitron reporting sites versus the old ones that tire
of it versus the old ones who have long forgotten that they are even
doing it.  How much improvement in the stats results from each
broadcast of source.

Also, why not report the stats on the basis of the size of number of
readers on the sites or industrial vs academic vs government vs
independent vs personal.  If we have to endure this eternal quest for
numbers -- at least make them interesting numbers.  Indeed, if there
is bandwidth for the software, there should be bandwidth for the raw
data.  Then everyone can draw their own conclusions from the data.

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