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  1. Newsgroups: soc.motss
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!agate!spool.mu.edu!umn.edu!csus.edu!netcom.com!solovay
  3. From: solovay@netcom.com (Andrew Solovay)
  4. Subject: Re: soc.motss.*
  5. Message-ID: <1992Dec22.002250.14871@netcom.com>
  6. Organization: People's Front of Judea
  7. References: <1992Dec20.065410.8579@macc.wisc.edu> <1992Dec21.141228.13237@bsu-ucs> <1992Dec21.215922.12999@reed.edu>
  8. Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 00:22:50 GMT
  9. Lines: 19
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Dec21.215922.12999@reed.edu> nelson@reed.edu (Nelson Minar) writes:
  12. >In article <1992Dec21.141228.13237@bsu-ucs> 00daspeakman@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu (David Speakman, Ball State University) writes:
  13. >>WE do need a division. I don't know about your guys, but I do not have
  14. >>the time to wade through literally thousands of postings each day.
  15. >
  16. >It's not literally thousands of postings each day. The most I've ever
  17. >seen posted to motss in one 24 hour period was around 200 messages. I
  18. >think the average is closer to 100. If our newsfeed weren't so flaky
  19. >I'd start collecting statistics.
  20.  
  21. According to news.lists, the figure is 2117 articles in the
  22. two-week period measured, or ~150 posts/day.
  23.  
  24. BZZZT! Improper use of the word "literally"; ten yards.
  25. -- 
  26. Andrew Solovay    
  27.                 "I know that, in America and under capitalism,
  28.                  I am the freest woman in history."
  29.                                 --- Camille Paglia
  30.