X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f996b,d3707f5ea51b0f3f X-Google-Attributes: gidf996b,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-05-11 07:11:13 PST Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art Path: gmd.de!nntp.gmd.de!xlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!uknet!dcs.gla.ac.uk!brunel!me90drj From: me90drj@brunel.ac.uk (DR J) Subject: Re: Alt.ascii-art ratings-leap! Message-ID: Organization: Brunel Loonieversity X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <2q6llp$37b@Mercury.mcs.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 1994 21:35:04 GMT Lines: 48 Colin Douthwaite (Colin_Douthwaite@equinox.gen.nz) wrote: : Jorn Barger (jorn@MCS.COM) wrote: : : We're the 483 best-read group, with an estimated 84,000 readers. (Based : : on a sample that showed 618 actual readers.) : : 44% of all sites carry the group (up from 24%, as I recall.) : : In April there were 1,658 messages totalling 5.8 megabytes. : : 9% were crossposted to other groups (e.g. alt.binaries.pictures.ascii) : : Out of every 1000 netnews readers, 14 read the group. The theoretical : : 'cost-per-reade' of the group is 4 cents. : All the more reason to let this newsgroup freely develop. It is doing just : great after only appearing in September 1993. : The last thing we want is a _MODERATED_ mainstream newsgroup for ascii-art. Why the fear of a moderated group? It's not like we're going to have to submit our pictures to the thought police. I'll be glad to have Scarecrow moderating this group. Hell, just today I saw the Meriday picture get posted, that's the tenth time I've seen it in about a month! Not to mention all the requests for pictures that were posted the previous week or the questions about viewing vt animation files. I have no problem with Scarecrow replying to that stuff so I don't have to read it. : In view of the Binary files; ANSI stuff which is (hopefully) uuencoded and : the wide variety of picture styles the alt. hierarchy is arguably the very : best place for ASCII-ART. Not being funny, but what's your reasoning? : The mainstream does not take kindly to Binary : postings so they get dumped in the ALT. newsgroups anyway. No, the mainstream groups that have nothing to do with ascii art and aren't expecting to run into any uuencoded files have a problem with them. I doubt rec.arts.ascii will. : Long Live alt.ascii-art ( UNMODERATED ). :-) :-) I dare say it will, but I'll be interested to see the 'ratings' for both alt.a-a and r.a.a after it's being going for a month or so. I imagine the ascii artists and would-be ascii artists who can't get the alt groups will soon push r.a.a up the Newsgroup charts. Just an opinion, not a flame. DR J