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- From: pbrown@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Philip C Brown)
- Subject: Re: Letter to NBI
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.123523.26058@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Organization: The Ohio State University
- References: <NOTABENE%92090104404510@TAUNIVM>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 12:35:23 GMT
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- In article <NOTABENE%92090104404510@TAUNIVM> Allen (ITF@PSUVM) writes:
- I have also noticed that the distribution of this list goes to
- under 150 sites, and I am not sure how many people read it at each site. If
- they did a better job, there would be more users on this list as well as in
- general.
-
- Someone else commented on declining numbers on the list a while ago.
-
- Some of this may result from subscribers, like me, who move to reading the list
- as it appears on more newslist services (e.g., those routinely received by Ohio
- State University now) from being an individual subscriber. Such changes are
- not a loss of subscribers, but simply a more efficient use of resources. It
- strikes my that raw numbers from the central list are not a very accurate
- determinant of list popularity if intermediate centers redistribute our
- communications.
-
- Phil Brown
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- Ohio State University
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