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From: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: alt.config,news.config
Subject: Is my alt your alt?
Summary: What you receive may be different from what I receive
Message-ID: <25665@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Date: 19 Jul 88 00:46:47 GMT
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In article <12143@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> weemba@garnet.berkeley.edu (Obnoxious Math Grad Student) writes:
>Are you and I talking about the same newsgroup?

It has been pointed out before that there is a large discrepancy between
measurements of the propagation, volume, and readership stats for the
alt group.  I suggest that there is a simple explaination.  We are each
measuring different things.

Because the alt group does not have the general propagation that the
normal groups do there is a good chance that an article posted in a
particular sub group will not make it cross country to other sites.
They may have readers reading that alt group and may pass it to their
regional neighbors but that may be as far as it goes.

I know that several of my neighbors don't want certain alt groups.  They
still pass alt.config and others so they are getting "alt" but someone
reading news that is feed thru them may be seing a different set of
articles.

Perhaps some of us could exchange article IDs and find out if this
is true.