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- Path: sparky!uunet!scorn!gorn!drseuss
- From: drseuss@gorn.echo.com (David Bedno)
- Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
- Subject: Re: periodicity
- Message-ID: <4708@gorn.echo.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 07:54:51 GMT
- References: <9208182230.AA00222@helium>
- Organization: Speakers for the Bread
- Lines: 31
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- dolan@noarlw.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) said:
- -> From: drseuss@gorn.echo.com (David Bedno)
- -> "Ok kids, time to face the truth: VOLUME was a bad idea."
- -> still is
- -
- -Oh, David, David, David.
- -
- -If VOLUME!!! was a bad idea, why has the readership of t.b increased from
- -40,000 to 160,000 since it was adopted as the byword of the newsgroup?
-
- a) Shit happens.
- b) The unemployment rate has gone up also.
- c) All of the above.
- d) Because the amount of sense on usenet is a constant,
- and as more people start reading, more people will
- keep reading.
- e) All of the above.
- f) Because usenet readership in general has gone up; we're
- only seeing a byproduct of that.
- g) All of the above.
- h) Because if VOLUME!!! had been a good idea, we would have
- more QUALITY posts; instead the number seems constant,
- driving the signal/noise ratio lower and lower.
- i) All of the above.
-
- cynic or soothsayer
- you decide
-
- --
- David Bedno drseuss@gorn.echo.com
- "Well shit eat, dude." - Starcap'n Ra
-