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  1. Xref: sparky news.groups:24861 news.admin.misc:898
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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!ficc!peter
  4. From: peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva)
  5. Subject: Re: PROPOSAL:  Yes votes >= 200+2*No Votes
  6. Message-ID: <id.8T1W.1M4@ferranti.com>
  7. Organization: Xenix Support, FICC
  8. References: <EMCGUIRE.92Dec18222138@mother.intellection.com> <id.JF0W.1XL@ferranti.com> <EMCGUIRE.92Dec22051335@fuller.intellection.com>
  9. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:19:27 GMT
  10. Lines: 13
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  12. In article <EMCGUIRE.92Dec22051335@fuller.intellection.com> emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire) writes:
  13. > I also agree that mailing lists and newsgroups are not the same thing.
  14. > However, a newsgroup which is successful on the basis of traffic alone
  15. > would probably make it as a mailing list to start with.
  16.  
  17. What does traffic have to do with success? Traffic is almost entirely
  18. irrelevant. Better measures are things like readership, and percentage
  19. of crossposting (groups like news.answers excepted, of course).
  20. -- 
  21. Peter da Silva                                            `-_-'
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