December 2002 comp.lang.* stats

[Aaron K. Johnson]

In message <3E32E5D6.82887F98 at engcorp.com>, 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.
> 
> -Peter

I agree. Plus, I'm not interested in working THAT hard to be that
anal-retentive about data which some would argue is still vague enough to be
discounted.

-Aaron.