Re: To Whom It May Concern

Lloyd Wood (wood@email.enst.fr)
Sat, 15 Jul 1995 15:54:04 +0200 (MET DST)

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Gareth Branwyn, Wired Magazine, writes:
> I'm interested in getting download data on the 10 most popular FAQs at your
> site. I do the Wired Top Ten List and would like to do "Most Popular FAQs."
> Please let me know if this is a possibility.

Hmmmm. What with FAQ web servers and the rest, asssuming that the ten
most popular FAQs downloaded from a single ftp site, rtfm, are the
most popular FAQs is an assumption worthy of Marty Rimm at best.

(ObRimmPeeve - I see the appendix to his 'report' considers a number of
UK counties and shires to be towns and cities. Quality research there.)

Wouldn't it be fairer to assume that the ten most widely read newsgroups
with frequently posted FAQs would contain the ten most widely-read FAQs?
Our medium is usenet, after all.

Of course, accurately making the measurements based on that assumption
is going to be difficult. An exercise for the reader.

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