Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!evan
From: evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Do we really need stats?
Message-ID: <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca>
Date: 17 Dec 89 22:37:00 GMT
Distribution: tor
Organization: Public Access Usenet, Brampton, Ontario
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The other day, a checkgroups message flew by here that included many
groups beyond the standard ones. Local groups from Atlanta, St. Louis,
San Francisco, New England, etc.

One thing I noticed was that no other local group exchanges uucp stats
via postings. It made me ask myself if these things were useful during
normal operation here, when they're not required elsewhere?

I create stats for this site and save them here, so I can make them
available if need arises. But is there a need to forward my 2K to
everyone's spool directory, especially as other traffic increases?

(Outside of the trivial pursuit of glancing at who's sending how much
to whom.)

We can easily know who's talking to whom through the maps. I suggest
that perhaps it is time to have a look at whether we really have to post
statistics daily.

(NOTE: I am fully aware of how to stop reading the stats or stop them
from going into or out of this site. That's not the point. I'm
addressing the bigger issue of whether this stuff even needs to be
propogated.)

I'm going to stop posting telly's, though anyone who wants them can have
them by mail. I'm sure they won't be missed much.
-- 
  Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
          evan@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416)452-0504
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