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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: news.misc
Subject: Re: Some interesting news stats
Message-ID: <8154@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 26 Oct 88 06:40:14 GMT
Article-I.D.: gryphon.8154
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <11250@bellcore.bellcore.com> tr@wind.UUCP (tom reingold) writes:
>(Gene Spafford) gives some very interesting statistics indeed!
>
>$ Then, the total cost of Usenet at its current size is $593,125,000 per
>$ year!  Even if those numbers are off by a factor of 10 (doubtful),
>$ those numbers are staggering!
>$ [...]
>
>This one, however, does not worry me.  Let the employers worry
>about lost productivity on an individual basis.  (Not that I think

A drop in the bucket when compared to office talk about ``last nights game''.


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