December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[Carl Banks]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> "Aaron K. Johnson" wrote:
>> 
>> A person is what counts as a 'unique poster'. A message ID alone would not
>> measure the 'user base' factor "im interested in.
>> 
>> Spam is still a problem to consider. It's not perfect yet.......
> 
> Spam is probably a problem best ignored.  It would probably
> affect all those groups equally anyway.

I don't think it would, but spam is probably a small enough percentage
of posts that it wouldn't make much difference.


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CARL BANKS