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On Nov 12, 11:23 am, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
riverman wrote:

: On Nov 12, 12:26 am, John Kuthe wrote:
: On Nov 11, 8:49 am, Oci-One Kanubi wrote:
:
: I peek in this morning and see 10 new messages, in 1 old and 8 new
: threads! How cool is that?
:
: Where would paddling be without the British Secret Cervix?
:
: SPAM does NOT count as legitimate NG traffic!
:
: John Kuthe...

: True, but how does SPAM affect views?
: Google.com says that we've had 133 views over the past 5 hours, which
: is 26.6 views per hour. For comparison, another group I hang out on
: has had 742 views over the past 21 hours, which is only 35.3 views per
: hour, a slight increase, and that group is quite lively.

: I wonder if we just have more lurkers instead of posters than we used
: to. If so, why would that be? We're not at all a hostile group...

Do people actually use google to access usenet?

GoogleGroups, yes. I do. Sad but true!

John Kuthe...

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Bill Tuthill wrote:
: Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
:
: : Google.com says that we've had 133 views over the past 5 hours, which
: : is 26.6 views per hour. For comparison, another group I hang out on
: : has had 742 views over the past 21 hours, which is only 35.3 views per
: : hour, a slight increase, and that group is quite lively.
:
: Do people actually use google to access usenet?

: I did, to access several newsgroups that still have not appeared
: on my normal ISP's news server, such as rec.boats.paddle.whitewater.
: But the Groups.Google interface is SO BAAAAD and SO SLOOOOOOOW
: that I gave up.

: Are those Google views per hour accounting for Groups.Google only?

My bet would be yes, how would google know that I access this via ripco?

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Oci-One, the men in black are on to me now - complements of the YL -
such stories I could tell but I have to ZERO. Sorry.

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On Nov 12, 12:23 pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

Do people actually use google to access usenet?

They do if they don't have Usenet access to the group from somewhere,
like my office. But I like Usenet better.

Steve

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On Nov 14, 8:41 am, " wrote:
On Nov 12, 12:23 pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:

Do people actually use google to access usenet?

They do if they don't have Usenet access to the group from somewhere,
like my office. But I like Usenet better.

Yeah, I liked direct Usenet access better too, using trn in Unix on
the Sun workstations at school where I discovered newsgroups, before
the WWW even existed!

And to think that was only...15 years ago! ;-) Damn, how time flies
when yer old!

John Kuthe...

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On Nov 15, 1:02 am, John Kuthe wrote:


And to think that was only...15 years ago! ;-) Damn, how time flies
when yer old!

Yeah, but only up to a point...

--riverman

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John Kuthe wrote:
: On Nov 14, 8:41 am, " wrote:
: On Nov 12, 12:23 pm, Chicago Paddling-Fishing wrote:
:
: Do people actually use google to access usenet?
:
: They do if they don't have Usenet access to the group from somewhere,
: like my office. But I like Usenet better.

: Yeah, I liked direct Usenet access better too, using trn in Unix on
: the Sun workstations at school where I discovered newsgroups, before
: the WWW even existed!

: And to think that was only...15 years ago! ;-) Damn, how time flies
: when yer old!

I still use tin with a unix shell access account... course I do admit
I use a cable provider for net access, not a 300baud modem anymore...
I lent my Hayes Smartmodem 300 to someone long ago and I'm pretty sure
they pitched it by now...

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