cbbrowne@lion.waterloo.edu (Christopher Browne) (11/30/89)
In article <379@ping.UUCP> gorpong@ping.UUCP (Gordon C. Galligher) writes: > >Make that 11. I read it, but since I don't even know FORTH enough to be >dangerous I don't dare post. I guess that I can make it at least 12. I am a regular reader who hasn't done enough real coding in Forth to have any strong opinions that I'm willing to express. Of course, I think we could count something resembling the real number of readers. Every few months they used to run a survey of the number of readers on each news group. The backbone machines would run a program (I can't remember the name, but it kept being reposted & had some catchy name) that read their users' .newsrc files & sent the data to some central information repository. This individual would combine the stats & publish various lists (including Top 10's and Bottom 10's). The census was only approximate (estimated based on a bunch of the larger machines), but gave an idea of readership. I haven't seen one of those surveys in a year or two... Christopher Browne cbbrowne@watlion University of Waterloo ACM Scholastic Programming Contest: Internationals in 1991!!!
ken@key.COM (Ken Kofman) (12/02/89)
I guess I am lucky 13.
ken
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{pacbell|ctnews|mordor|sgi|ernie|amdahl}!key!kenbjskelly@PacBell.COM (Bruce J. Skelly) (12/07/89)
Me too! Bruce
jameson@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Kevin Jameson) (12/09/89)
I read this group too, so make it 13 at least.
shri@ccs1.cs.umass.edu (H.Shrikumar{shri@ncst.in}) (12/14/89)
In article <2212@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP> jameson@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Kevin Jameson) writes: >I read this group too, so make it 13 at least. Really is somebody seriously keeping a count ? me too ... so thats 14. -- shrikumar ( shri@ccs1.cs.umass.edu, shri@ncst.in )