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   Message 118,901 of 119,658   
   Aatu Koskensilta to KalElFan   
   Re: META+ The Root Cause of Usenet's Dec   
   29 Dec 10 13:16:43   
   
   XPost: news.groups, rec.arts.comics.dc.universe, rec.arts.sf.tv   
   XPost: rec.arts.tv   
   From: aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi   
      
   "KalElFan"  writes:   
      
   > True, but the individual servers that make up Usenet are owned.   
   > Here's a "Top 1000" site that's maintained and updated.  It's not   
   > perfect in its methodology but it's a pretty good guideline.   
      
     Is it? It's not clear from the web page but it seems the statistics   
   include binaries. If so, your calculations are pretty meaningless.   
      
   > There are many other factors that may swing it one way or another, but   
   > there may be 100,000++ potential readers at least who are subscribed   
   > to rec.arts.tv worldwide.   
      
     This is a totally unrealistic figure.   
      
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   Aatu Koskensilta (aatu.koskensilta@uta.fi)   
      
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     - Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus   
      
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