Path: utzoo!censor!geac!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Do we really need stats?
Message-ID: <1382@becker.UUCP>
Date: 18 Dec 89 05:53:13 GMT
References: <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Distribution: tor
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
|[...]
|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.

	If it ain't broke don't fix it...

|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.

	I wonder why this is such a big problem
	when in comparison you might see in
	"comp.mail.maps" some 5 to 10 "u.gbr.?"
	maps posted per month all over the world,
	to give a trivial example. It seems like
	the stats are like a kind of local weather
	report which are of use on a day to day
	basis esp. when there are news droughts
	or floods...

Cheers,
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