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From: dennis.l.erlich@support.com
Subject: Talk about Upstats!
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papertiger@alpha.c2.org (Paper Tiger)

Someone:
>Not too long ago Paper Tiger (an191579@anon.penet.fi) did some traffic
>analysis on her a.r.s archive, to see how many posters there are.  Mind
>you, this is just -posters-; the number of -readers- is unknown (but must
>be larger, unless we have many people posting without reading).  Here's
>her results:
>
>|  Number of messages           = 42376
>|  Unique "From:" lines         =  3990
>|  Posters with > 10 messages   =   523
>|  Posters with > 50 messages   =   154
>|  Posters with > 100 messages  =    82
>
>That's almost 4000 people who actually posted to a.r.s.  But Ron's
>"observations" are "true for him" and we shouldn't bother him with silly
>things like facts.
        
Tiger:
>  That'd be almost exactly a month ago, October 17th.  The numbers
>  as of this afternoon (November 16th), are:
>
>    Number of messages           = 50814
>    Unique "From:" lines         =  4813
>    Posters with > 10 messages   =   562
>    Posters with > 50 messages   =   184
>    Posters with > 100 messages  =    94
>
>  My archives start about July 1st, 1995.  If anyone wants the full
>  breakdown by poster, e-mail me (now at papertiger@alpha.c2.org).
>
>   ** Paper Tiger (SP3, LFDoX)
       
    Wow!  A year ago there were only the 30 odd (and I mean that 
    in the "nice" way) posters to ars.  About half and half 
    scienos to skeptics.  Martin Hunt may have been the only true
    ex-er on the newsgroup.  There were several Freezoners who 
    posted regularly and several that did occasionally.  We had a
    whole assortment of OSA robo-sub-minions.

    5000!  That's *Posters*!

    Damn, I wanna piece o' this action.
    
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