Path: utzoo!censor!geac!wcm
From: wcm@geac.com (W Christopher Martin)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Do we really need stats?
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.052942.17677@geac.com>
Date: 18 Dec 89 05:29:42 GMT
References: <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: wcm@geac.com (W Christopher Martin)
Distribution: tor
Organization: Geac Computer Corporation
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In article <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch)
 writes:
>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?

They aren't required here either, but I find them useful.  I'm
surprised that other regions aren't doing the same thing.

>... 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.)

Very rarely do I need the detailed information.  What I usually glance
at is the summary of how many articles passed through various major
sites.  When I compare these numbers to those for my own site, I can
detect whether fluctuations are localized or not.

There are lots of sites posting stats that I put in my kill file and
then ignore.  I don't mind carrying them in case someone out there is
interested.  On the other hand, there are some sites that I wish
would post useful stats.  Some don't post at all, and others post
numbers that I don't find useful (utzoo for example).

>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.

They will be missed, but since there are enough other sites posting stats
for me to use as reference points, I won't bother asking to be put on
your mailing list.  I would just have to arrange to inject the mail
back into tor.news.stats (with a local distribution) so that I could
read your stats in context with everyone else's.

wcm
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W. Christopher Martin  wcm@geac.com or {uunet!jtsv16,utgpu,yunexus}!geac!wcm