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- Newsgroups: alt.bbs
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!eskimo!nanook
- From: nanook@eskimo.com (Robert Dinse)
- Subject: Re: Bad service BBS's
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.162606.1721@eskimo.com>
- Summary: Ask
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
- References: <1992Nov9.001823.13138@eskimo.celestial.com> <1992Nov14.155407.12618@nwnexus.WA.COM>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:26:06 GMT
- Lines: 21
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- In article <1992Nov14.155407.12618@nwnexus.WA.COM>, ralphs@halcyon.com (Ralph Sims) writes:
- > richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk) writes:
- >
- > >I wonder how many of these subscribers have been made aware that
- > >other groups are available elsewhere. Sure the information is
- > >provided if they ask -- what about the ones (probably the majority)
- > >that don't know to ask?
- >
- > I'd like to think the folks that use our system are a little more
- > sophisticated than that! Believe me, if I were to want a particular
- > newsgroup, or even EXPECTED a popular one to be available--and it
- > weren't--I'd ask. And they do. But you'll have to trust me on this:
- > not that many ask. And you're right, those that do, get the information
- > they need. And so far, no one has complained that we don't carry them
- > on the local drives. As I said before: for the system and its users,
- > it's a non-issue.
-
- I think you're wrong on this one, the reason I say that is that over
- here those two groups show up on the top of the popularity list under
- Arbitron.
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