From: mdhangton@gmail.com   
      
   I have a question about Google Groups that I have wanted to ask, but I didn't   
   think it was appropriate to ask here...so I haven't in the past...but I don't   
   know a meaningful place to ask it.   
      
   Let us say you start a thread titled Shameless Self-Promotion!!!, which says   
   you've offered your latest novel _Mr. Spock Smokes a Cigarette_ on Amazon.   
      
   It exists for a week and you look at the Google Groups page for rasfc, and it   
   says beside your entry   
      
   1 post, 3 views   
      
   Does "3 views" mean total views through any means of seeing usenet groups, or   
   does it only count the people who viewed it using Google Chrome or Google   
   Groups website?   
      
   Why I ask this is that some writers in this day and age work to promote   
   themselves on Facebook, Twitter, get their friends to write warm Amazon   
   reviews for them, whatever, to show some publishing executive or literary   
   agent they have an internet presence.   
     When these guys see 3 views, do they say, "What a loser!  Screw him and his   
   crappy Mr. Spock novel."   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)