Subj : RE: Newsgroups?
To   : Chris Cranford
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Thu Jul 26 2001 12:09 pm

 -=> On 07-24-01  23:58, Chris Cranford <=-
 -=> spoke to Ross Cassell about RE: Newsgroups? <=-

 CC> the point?  Sure some 
 CC> echos receive a few dozen up to a hundred or so messages a day, but
 CC> lets be  frank... Those high volume echos are typically SYSOP chat 
 CC> echos, etc ... those 
 CC> echoes where conversation is about who said what... 

  FYI,  Here is a list of the weekly message counts in echos as seen at
  my uplink, sorted by volume, for the past week.   I think that the
  list pretty much denies your statement.   In the top ten echos, I
  don't see any echos I would call sysop chat.  It is not until you get
  to number 21 (Z1C) that you see an admin type echo.

  Admitedly, there are weeks when things heat up and FN_SYSOP or one of
  the other semi-flame sysop echos moves up in the listings, but the
  topical echos pretty much maintain their relative positions.

         Squish Log Report for 14 JUL 23:55 through 21 JUL 23:50
         -------------------------------------------------------
                           Echo Area Data
                           --------------
           NETMAIL            1297 Tossed       0 Scanned
           HOLYSMOKE           931 Tossed   18722 Scanned
           VB_DISCUSSION       872 Tossed    5229 Scanned
           LISTS.SUSE-E-LI     834 Tossed    8683 Scanned
           LISTS.LINUX-KER     814 Tossed    8514 Scanned
           OSDEBATE            672 Tossed   12362 Scanned
           FILK                607 Tossed    9331 Scanned
           POL_INC             502 Tossed    7368 Scanned
           WHAT'S_HOT!         325 Tossed    4748 Scanned
           KOSOVO              307 Tossed    3803 Scanned
           COOKING             295 Tossed    6502 Scanned
           POLITICS            262 Tossed    4800 Scanned
           TREK_HUMOR_FILK     258 Tossed    3774 Scanned
           DEBATE              233 Tossed    4744 Scanned
           SHAREWARE_SUPPO     211 Tossed    3258 Scanned
           TREK_CREATIVE       155 Tossed    2108 Scanned
           WIN95               140 Tossed    3376 Scanned
           LINUX               139 Tossed    3196 Scanned
           NTHELP              137 Tossed     866 Scanned
           ECHOLIST            127 Tossed    3111 Scanned
           Z1C                 118 Tossed    3053 Scanned
           NASCAR              116 Tossed    2045 Scanned
           FUNNY               113 Tossed    2765 Scanned
           ONE_STATS           105 Tossed       0 Scanned
           OS2USER-L           104 Tossed    1144 Scanned
           CHATTER             100 Tossed    2007 Scanned
           ENGLISH_TUTOR        95 Tossed    1248 Scanned
           SCIENCE              94 Tossed    1899 Scanned
           DUPES                93 Tossed       0 Scanned
           Z1_ROUTING           93 Tossed    1610 Scanned
           OS2                  89 Tossed    2009 Scanned
           FTSC_PUBLIC          86 Tossed    1944 Scanned
           BAD_MSGS             83 Tossed       0 Scanned
           MONTE                79 Tossed    1198 Scanned
           FN_SYSOP             75 Tossed    2134 Scanned
           WIN2000              73 Tossed    1558 Scanned
           379.ECHOMAIL         70 Tossed     140 Scanned
           FTNHUB               70 Tossed     560 Scanned
           FIDO-REQ             69 Tossed    1059 Scanned
           LUNATICS             65 Tossed    1161 Scanned
           PHIL                 65 Tossed    1043 Scanned
           ALL-POLITICS         63 Tossed    1079 Scanned
           TECH                 62 Tossed    1439 Scanned
           MENSA                59 Tossed     947 Scanned
           ESSNASA              56 Tossed     698 Scanned
           AUTOMOBILE_RACI      55 Tossed     799 Scanned
           FDN_ANNOUNCE         53 Tossed    3296 Scanned
           LINUXHELP            53 Tossed     318 Scanned
           COFFEE_KLATSCH       52 Tossed    1127 Scanned
           MEMORIES             51 Tossed     979 Scanned


                        dale (at) min (dot) net
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