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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: news.misc,news.config,news.admin,news.groups
Subject: Re: Cost-per-reader bug found
Message-ID: <1660@desint.UUCP>
Date: 9 Jan 88 07:32:58 GMT
References: <228@bacchus.DEC.COM> <12330@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA
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In article <12330@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre) writes:

> I would suggest that the most serious error in the cost/reader
> computation is the one that has the least comment on its accuracy,  the
> $.10/minute value.

I agree with Jerry that this is an inaccurate value, but my solution
is to look at the cost/reader as being the middle of a
three-orders-of-magnitude estimate.  In other words, a newsgroup listed
as $2.00/reader actually costs somewhere between $0.20 and $20.00.
Yes it's crude, but then so are the statistics (as Brian is well aware).
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff@ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff