[comp.sources.d] Summarizing KILL files

geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (08/11/87)

In article <4093@ncoast.UUCP> allbery@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery) writes:

> As of now, my global KILL file will contain a command to junk all articles
> by Mr. [X] ...

It strikes me that a very interesting statistic to go along with the
top-25 posters and the arbitron statistics would be a "top-25 KILL-file
targets" list.  Maybe it would create some humility among some of the more
rash posters on the net, to realize that so many people considered them fools.

Of course, the statistic might be more interesting if you established a rule
that no one listed in a KILL file should have his KILL files counted;  this
might prevent the presumably-strange predilections of the Mr. X's from warping
the statistics.  Then again, I could argue for leaving all the stuff in.

A program to do this could be based on the arbitron program.  Hmmm.

(Followups have been directed to news.admin;  I intend this suggestion
quite seriously.  People who wish to flame Brandon or Mr. X, please
follow up to some other article in comp.sources.d.)
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