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From: ambar@bloom-beacon.mit.edu (Jean Marie Diaz)
Newsgroups: news.admin,news.software.nntp
Subject: Re: arbitron/nntp
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Date: 5 Jan 90 20:44:40 GMT
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In-Reply-To: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk's message of 5 Jan 90 10:56:15 GMT


   From: igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten)
   Date: 5 Jan 90 10:56:15 GMT

   I've just off-loaded my news-reading overhead from our news spool
   machine; people now read news with rrn or xrn from other hosts.  Is
   there any received wisdom on how best to manage my arbitron returns?  

If you control all those other hosts, then running arbitron on each one
is at least feasible.

The best thing (IMHO) is to wait for the new NNTP protocol revision
which will have support for centrally-gathered statistics.  (Any ETA,
Brian?)

(Then, of course, we'll have to wait for the implementation of same.
Heck, I've been waiting three years now to be able to contribute
arbitron statistics from MIT Project Athena; a few more months won't
hurt.  :-)


				 AMBAR
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