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From: heiby@falkor.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
Newsgroups: news.admin
Subject: Re: Top 25 News Groups for the last 2 weeks (from talk.bizarre)
Message-ID: <134@falkor.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 88 13:46:33 GMT
References: <7080@uunet.UU.NET> <1918@mind.UUCP> <1156WGRCU@CUNYVM> <8272@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: heiby@mcdchg.UUCP (Ron Heiby)
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Bill Wisner (wisner@eddie.MIT.EDU) writes:
| (article <7080@uunet.UU.NET>, newsstats@uunet.UU.NET)
| >>          No. of        $ Cost  % of  Cumulative
| >> Rank  Kbytes Articles per Site Total  % of Total  Group
| >>    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)
| 
| I would even ask if Mr. Rubin has the tiniest shred of a sense of humor.

As I don't know Mr. Rubin, I won't comment directly on his sense of humor,
but I suspect that it is much like that of most people who are responsible
for the use of machine resources.  Most people in such a position probably
would find a talk.bizarre that had a "% of Total" somewhere below 1.0%
to be at least mildly humorous.  Most people in such a position probably
find the current talk.bizarre, with a 3.1% value to be quite sad.

Bill suggests later in his article that if a site doesn't like talk.bizarre,
then they can stop taking it.  This is quite true.  I find it very odd that
someone would want to encourage the kind of behaviour that will lead to
increasing numbers of administrators taking exactly that action.

[Note:  This article is not going to talk.bizarre, because I don't support
the "talk" groups.  Never did.  Never will.  It is also not going to
alt.flame, because I don't support institutionalized flaming on the net.
The groups aren't here, so I can't post to them.]
-- 
Ron Heiby, heiby@mcdchg.UUCP	Moderator: comp.newprod & comp.unix
"Intel architectures build character."