kraut@ut-emx.UUCP (Werner Uhrig) (02/27/88)
What creating COMP.SYS.MAC2 and/or COMP.UNIX.AUX may buy us - a sobering
mini-study.
I decided to spent an hour on studying the type of articles that are
candidates for the 2 groups Chuq and I proposed;
This site (EMX) seems to expire articles in COMP.SYS.MAC after 18 days
and we have currently 1014 articles dated from Feb 7 to Feb 26. Manually
scanning the Subject-lines allowed me to identify 80 articles that seem
to address Mac2 topics (including A/UX); 53 of these include A/UX (or a
variation) in the Subject line; of those 33 also have "COST" in the
Subject-line. Conclusions? Decide yourself ...
Below, I enclose a few pieces of data I used.
1) I used "readnews -xrln comp.sys.mac >xrln" and then removed all the
lines of subgroups (comp.sys.mac.*). I, manually, extracted all lines
that indicate Mac2 topics into "xrln.mac2"; "xrln.mac2.ux" was created
with "fgrep -i ux xrln.mac2 >xrln.mac2.ux" to identify A/UX topics;
and "fgrep -i cost xrln.mac2.ux >xrln.mac2.ux.cost" identified the
many articles that discuss the cost of A/UX.
51 -rw------- 1 kraut source 51514 Feb 26 15:12 xrln
3 -rw------- 1 kraut source 2639 Feb 26 15:15 xrln.mac2.ux
4 -rw------- 1 kraut source 4016 Feb 26 15:08 xrln.mac2
2 -rw------- 1 kraut source 1564 Feb 26 15:18 xrln.mac2.ux.cost
2) to know the number of articles in each group, I counted lines with the
command "wc" resulting in:
1014 5948 51514 xrln
80 526 4016 xrln.mac2
53 336 2639 xrln.mac2.ux
33 203 1564 xrln.mac2.ux.cost
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