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- From: reid@pa.dec.com (Brian Reid)
- Subject: Re: reader count
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.035454.14512@PA.dec.com>
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- Organization: DEC Network Systems Laboratory
- References: <MJOHNSON.92Nov17090232@netcom.Netcom.COM>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 03:54:54 GMT
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- In article <MJOHNSON.92Nov17090232@netcom.Netcom.COM> mjohnson@netcom.Netcom.COM (Mark Johnson) writes:
- >Have a look at the news.* newsgroups. Every month a summary is
- >posted of all kinds of statistics: # of articles, # of readers,
- >traffic flow by site, etc etc. Everything you could imagine
- >when dreaming of a beancounter-on-methamphetamine who just
- >learned how to program in C++ :-).
-
- I'll have you know that all of my scripts are programmed in awk, not C++,
- that I can't count beans higher than 7 or 8, and that if you took one look at
- me in my size-40 jeans you'd know I'm not on methamphetamine.
-
- I've always figured that Mark Johnson isn't wrong by more than a factor of 2,
- either.
-