Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!robohack!eci386!jmm
From: jmm@eci386.uucp (John Macdonald)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Do we really need stats?
Message-ID: <1989Dec18.165245.25735@eci386.uucp>
Date: 18 Dec 89 16:52:45 GMT
References: <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: jmm@eci386.UUCP (John Macdonald)
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Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
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In article <258C150E.33F@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
>
> [ ... ]      It made me ask myself if these things were useful during
>normal operation here, when they're not required elsewhere?
>

I normally ignore stats completely - by unsubscribing or by a large kill
file depending upon the machine in question.  However, I appreciate
having them there.  It means that whenever there is a lull in incoming news,
I can look back up the feed chain to see whether it is a city-wide drought
or if a specific machine is having problems.  It can mean the difference
between a system administrator noticing a problem eventually, or having a
neighbour sound the alarm immediately.  I certainly appreciate getting
such alerts from my neighbours (I know, I know, its time I got ecijmm
running again...).
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80386 - hardware demonstrating the fractal nature of warts.   | John Macdonald
EMS/LIM - software demonstrating the fractal nature of warts. |   jmm@eci386