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From: john@newave.UUCP (John A. Weeks III)
Newsgroups: news.misc,alt.flame
Subject: Re: Most useless postings in news.all
Summary: I like this information
Message-ID: <49@newave.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 90 05:42:46 GMT
References: <1990Feb19.191033.19902@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Reply-To: john@newave.mn.org (John A. Weeks III)
Followup-To: news.misc
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In article <1990Feb19.191033.19902@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> wisner@hayes.fai.alaska.edu (Bill Wisner) writes:
> Here are ranks, counts, and Message-IDs (and subjects, authors,
> and newsgroups if available) of the most useless articles that
> appeared here in news.all over the last seven days.
>
> Rank ID
>   1 <90132@elsie.UUCP>
>	Subject: Articles most often cited in comp.all
>	From: news@elsie.UUCP (news)
>	Newsgroups: news.misc

I like this information.  I cannot read every message in every group,
but I do like to pick up on some of the ongoing discussions and even
an occasional flame war.  The most cited list helps me locate discussions
that I might otherwise miss when it is an "obscure" group (i.e., one that
I do not normally read).

I do wish that this list was smarter, and that it was more keyed to
discussion rather than the references line.  It would also be nice
to have the information aged (last 3 days, last 7 days, last 14 days,
last 21 days, ...--well, maybe not last 3, but you get the point).
Finally, I would mind if the breath was extended to all groups.

-john-

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