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From: karl@grebyn.COM (Karl A. Nyberg)
Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin
Subject: Re: arbitron data from these sites has expired
Summary: decwrl != decwrl.dec.com?
Message-ID: <10575@grebyn.COM>
Date: 6 Jan 88 17:11:08 GMT
References: <12266@decwrl.DEC.COM> <1532@rtech.UUCP> <525@athos.rutgers.edu>
Organization: Grebyn Corporation; Vienna, VA
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In article <525@athos.rutgers.edu>, dpz@athos.rutgers.edu (David P. Zimmerman) writes:
$ In article <1532@rtech.UUCP> daveb@llama.rtech.UUCP (Dave Brower) writes:
$ 
$ $ $decwrl			macbeth			uccba
$ 
$ $ I know getting people to run arbitron on other machines is a continuing
$ $ problem, but this must be a joke to see if anyone is reading the message.
$ $ I hope.
$ 
$ Unless the arbitron data is being submitted from decwrl.dec.com
$ instead of decwrl, which is the same place anyway.

I can understand the problem.  Grebyn.com was one of the sites listed a few
months ago as out of date, and I KNOW that we send in our arbitron reports
every 15th of the month, 'cause I get a copy of them.  Well, apparently, the
great news counting / sorting software wasn't smart enough to notice that
grebyn= grebyn.com, and the response was that there wasn't an electronic
database that correlated the two.

I sent in my uucp map entry, you know, the one that gets posted in
comp.mail.maps to 40 gazillion sites every month, part of which is included
below.  Perhaps it's just that the software is suffering from bit rot, and
has to be upgraded to deal with domains and all.  Odds are that the new
statistics actually DO HAVE data from decwrl.dec.com, and the reticent
expiration notice could be easily ignored (if not fixed).

	#N	.grebyn.com, grebyn
	grebyn	.grebyn.com
	grebyn=	grebyn.com

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