December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[Laura Creighton]

> "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.
> 
> -Peter
> -- 
> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

I don't think so.  I predict that spam will effect those newsgroups
which have a mail gateway more than those that do not, unless the
gateway has a sophisticated spam filter.  This one, however, we
can test.

Laura Creighton