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  1. Xref: sparky news.groups:24888 news.admin.misc:902
  2. Newsgroups: news.groups,news.admin.misc
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!intell!emcguire
  4. From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
  5. Subject: Re: PROPOSAL:  Yes votes >= 200+2*No Votes
  6. In-Reply-To: peter@ferranti.com's message of Wed, 23 Dec 1992 01:19:27 GMT
  7. Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Dec23140018@fuller.intellection.com>
  8. Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
  9. Organization: Intellection, Inc.
  10. References: <EMCGUIRE.92Dec18222138@mother.intellection.com> <id.JF0W.1XL@ferranti.com>
  11.     <EMCGUIRE.92Dec22051335@fuller.intellection.com>
  12.     <id.8T1W.1M4@ferranti.com>
  13. Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 20:00:18 GMT
  14. Lines: 16
  15.  
  16. In article <id.8T1W.1M4@ferranti.com> peter@ferranti.com (peter da silva) writes:
  17.  
  18.    What does traffic have to do with success? Traffic is almost
  19.    entirely irrelevant. Better measures are things like readership,
  20.    and percentage of crossposting (groups like news.answers excepted,
  21.    of course).
  22.  
  23. I wouldn't say it is irrelevant.  See my other article for an
  24. explanation.
  25. -- 
  26. Ed McGuire                   1603 LBJ Freeway, Suite 780
  27. Systems Administrator/       Dallas, Texas 75234
  28.  Member of Technical Staff   214/620-2100, FAX 214/484-8110
  29. Intellection, Inc.           <ed@intellection.com>
  30.  
  31. Raise Usenet quality.  Read news.announce.newgroups and vote.
  32.