> There are currently 2513 postings listed in the LoPIP, representing
> many more actual articles, since one "posting" may have many parts.
> Number of Number of
> Newsgroups Postings Percentage
> 1 455 18%
> 2 224 9%
Since the news.answers charter requires a minimum of three newsgroups
(home group, home-group-hierarchy.answers, and news.answers), I presume
that nearly all of the above are not approved FAQs, just random periodic
postings included in the LoPIP. The news.answers FAQ itself would be
an exception; are there others?
Assuming that all the rest *are* approved FAQs (obviously not true,
but unless Pam wants to rerun her numbers, we'll take this as a first
approximation) we can revise the percentages as follows:
3 960 52% 100%
4 299 16% 48%
5 250 14% 31%
6 100 5% 18%
7-10 184 10% 12%
11-26 41 2% 2%
Total FAQs: 1834
The right-hand column is "cumulative from the bottom" and shows what
percentage of FAQs would be affected by news software discrimination
against articles crossposted to N or more newsgroups.
The existing AT&T forwarding policy is thus preventing forwarding
of 18% of FAQs --- unpleasantly high if you ask me, but then mine
is in that 18% :-). Tighter restrictions such as Netcom is considering
would affect much larger fractions.
If we decide to lobby newsadmins as Kent is suggesting, we should
definitely use numbers that count only "approved FAQs", ie, news.answers
postings, so as to make the point as strongly as possible.
regards, tom lane
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