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From: WGRCU@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU (Bill Rubin)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
Message-ID: <1156WGRCU@CUNYVM>
Date: 24 Feb 88 00:01:55 GMT
References: <7080@uunet.UU.NET> <1918@mind.UUCP>
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In going thru some files on system's news disk, trying to find room for new
news because the disk had filled up, I found this dribble in talk.bizarre:

In article <1918@mind.UUCP>, greg@mind.UUCP (greg Nowak) says:
>
>In article <7080@uunet.UU.NET> newsstats@uunet.UU.NET writes:
>
>          No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
> Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group (Articles/contributor)
>    1  1175.9     696     36.75  3.5%     3.5%     comp.sys.ibm.pc (1.7)
>    2  1066.7     948     33.33  3.1%     6.6%     soc.singles (3.0)
>    3  1038.4     698     32.45  3.1%     9.7%     soc.women (2.9)
>    4  1035.2    1263     32.35  3.1%    12.7%     talk.bizarre (6.2)
>
>
>Congratulations to ALL for a FABULOUS effort. I believe 4th is the
>highest we have EVER placed. But WORK at it, damnit! 31 more KB and we
>would have beaten SOC.SINGLES!
>
>I did my part. 95 KB. Now you do yours.
>
>--
>                              greg

Now, I have never read talk.bizarre, and I know there are some sites
which do not carry the talk. groups, but we have decided not to do this
here, because we feel that it is important that we carry as much as
possible.

But when I see this kind of garbage, posted not once but three times, I
have to wonder if we are making the correct decision. I would ask if
people realize the overhead involved in each message they post, but the
obvious answer in this case is that they could care less. At minimum,
talk.bizarre postings are going to get a much shorter life at my site.
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Bill Rubin         City University of New York
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