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...

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

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...

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

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.