On Nov 11, 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?

On Nov 12 John Kuthe wrote:
SPAM does NOT count as legitimate NG traffic!

On Mon, 12 Nov 07, riverman wrote:
True, but how does SPAM affect views?
Google.com says that we've had 133 views over the past 5 hours
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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...

Isn't that "133 views" only Google readers? I would think that figure
would be only a small fraction of total views. Me for instance. I
can't imagine trying to read newsgroups without a proper newsreader.

And, I might add, hostile groups tend to attract posters.
Unfortunately, they're usually the wrong kind.

Rick