Re: How to find history/origins/stats of a newsgroup??

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Jess Anderson (anderson@macc.wisc.edu)
Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:40:38 -0600 (CST)


>Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 19:23:38 -0500
>Subject: Re: How to find history/origins/stats of a newsgroup??

Larry W. Virden writes:

>From: Innfinit@ix.netcom.com (Captain Infinity)

>> Beware of using Deja News for any serious statistical data collection.
>> They are notoriously inaccurate.

>in what way are 'they' inaccurate?

For one thing, they observe the X-No-Archive: yes header, which
means they don't count the many posters using it.

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