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- From: brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown)
- Subject: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer, 'rmgroup's respectfully suggested
- Organization: Oak Road Systems, Cleveland Ohio USA
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 19:18:33 GMT
- Message-ID: <C0ALMy.Lw4@NCoast.ORG>
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- If you are a sysadmin, please consider deleting the obsolete newsgroup
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer. If you are not a sysadmin, but your system
- accepts posted articles for c.s.i.p.p, please post to comp.os.msdos.programmer
- not c.s.i.p.p, and please pass this message along to your syasadmin. Thanks!
-
- The details:
-
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer is not in the "List of Active Newsgroups"
- posted in news.groups,news.lists, since c.s.i.p.p was changed to
- comp.os.msdos.programmer more than two years ago, in September 1990.
- Instead of deleting the old group, many sites have aliased
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer to comp.os.msdos.programmer, so that articles
- are still being sent out with the old newsgroup in the Newsgroups line.
-
- In the "Usenet Readership Report for Dec 1992", Brian Reid
- (reid@decwrl.DEC.COM) writes, in part:
-
- > +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
- > | +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
- > | | +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
- > | | | +-- Share: % of newsrders
- > | | | | who read this group.
- > V V V V
- > 49000 86% 519 2.9% comp.os.msdos.programmer
- > 20000 52% 52 1.2% comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
-
- You may consider this a non-problem. But users at the affected
- sites aren't getting the best use out of Usenet since they're missing
- over 50 % of the potential respondents. (If everyone who subscribed to
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer also subscribed to comp.os.msdos.programmer,
- questions posted to the former group would reach 41% of the combined
- readership. If the sets of subscribers to the groups were disjoint,
- c.s.i.p.p subscribers would represent 29% of the total. The truth is
- somewhere between the two extremes; hence (subtracting from 100%)
- subscribers to c.s.i.p.p only are missing between 59% and 71% of their
- intended audience.)
-
- To reiterate:
-
- If you are a sysadmin, please consider deleting the obsolete newsgroup
- comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer. If you are not a sysadmin, but your system
- accepts posted articles for c.s.i.p.p, please post to comp.os.msdos.programmer
- not c.s.i.p.p, and please pass this message along to your syasadmin.
-
- Thanks!
-
- --
- Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
-
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