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From: rwilliam@grebyn.com (Roger Williams)
Newsgroups: news.groups
Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION -- talk.politics.gay
Keywords: homosexuality, flame_war
Message-ID: <19330@grebyn.com>
Date: 2 Feb 90 22:59:30 GMT
References: <34015@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <15894@well.UUCP>
Reply-To: rwilliam@grebyn.UUCP (Roger Williams)
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In article <15894@well.UUCP> slf@well.UUCP (Sharon Lynne Fisher) writes:
>
>Be real.  Starting talk.abortion hasn't removed the abortion debate from
>all the other newsgroups, and I understand that the traffic in the abortion
>group itself is very low.  

Actually, I think that here you are picking on the success story
of the talk hierarchy.  As another poster mentioned, there is
very little abortion discussion going on in other newsgroups.
According the last months Usenet traffic analysis, talk abortion
averaged 30 articles per day (even more when you consider that
includes Saturdays and Sundays), and was ranked 11th of all the
newsgroups in terms of volume.  Crossposting was limited to only
2% of the total talk.abortion articles submitted.

Now if you want to make the same point and use talk.politics.guns
or talk.rape as illustrations, you won't get any argument from me. :-)

Roger Williams
rwilliam@grebyn.com