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DOH! Re: Decreasing NG Topicality (Was: Re: Bad ECM?)
It the reply button to quickly there...read on:
"Wickeddoll®" <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Stuart Krivis" <jd@mongo.krivis.com> wrote in message
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>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:28:24 -0400, "Wickeddoll®"
>> <wickeddoll1958diespammersdie@yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>>> All of us here posting, on or off-topic, don't produce even a fraction
>>>> of what binary posters do.
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>>>> Right now it looks like alt.binaries.boneless is the most massive
>>>> group. The average daily traffic is 35521.79 MB. That's one newsgroup
>>>> for one day.
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>>>> All of the alt. hierarchy is averaging 288906.11 MB. The sub-hierarchy
>>>> of alt.binaries is 287115.23 MB daily. So all of the "text" alt.
>>>> newsgroups produce a bit over 1.7 GB average a day, and you can bet
>>>> that a lot of that is really binaries being posted into text
>>>> newsgroups by people who can't follow the rules.
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>>>> War and Peace is 3.13 MB of ASCII text. You could post that multiple
>>>> times a day in this group and it wouldn't be a pimple on the butt of
>>>> the 288 GB a day that alt. produces.
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>>>I don't know whether to be comforted or frightened that you know that...
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>>>;-)
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>>>Natalie
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>> The stats on Usenet, or how long War and Peace is?
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>> I used to help admin a newserver for a large ISP, so I still kind of
>> keep track to see how big Usenet is getting out of curiousity or
>> something. :-) I'm also familiar with how small text usenet is
>> compared to binary Usenet.
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>> In this case, I used some info from:
>> [url]http://news.gamma.ru/stats-yesterday.html[/url]
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>> As for War and Peace, here was the thinking process: It's generally
>> thought of as a long book, so it sprang to mind as a good example. I
>> know it's now in the public domain, so it's probably been scanned by
>> Project Gutenberg. They let you download the text files, so somewhere
>> there's going to be listed the size of the file, or I could just
>> download it and see. Google for "project gutenberg war and peace" and
>> you get [url]http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/2600[/url]
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>> Look on that page and you see that the uncompressed size of the text
>> file is 3.13 MB.
>>
>> Simple, huh? :-)
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You have wayyyy too much free time.
8-)
Natalie
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