Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> writes: > Sure, a lot of those 1,800 posts are spam, but the spammers wouldn't > waste their time if they didn't think there were people still on > Usenet.
Heh, since spamming goes automatically who cares how many people it reaches. I also see spam in which people forget to include a URL, etc. My site is daily hit by badly written spam software. So, no: spam is not by far any way to measure the number of readers. On top of that, there is /no way/ to even determine how many people read a given Usenet group. > How do you know? Do you have evidence for this, or are you just making it > up? I guess the same way as your remark regarding spam: guessing (I guess) ;-) > I happen to know at least one of the Gnus users is using News, so that's > 1 definite News, 2 Web, 4 either News or email, and no definite email. Fwiw: I use Usenet :-). -- John Bokma j3b Hacking & Hiking in Mexico - http://johnbokma.com/ http://castleamber.com/ - Perl & Python Development -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
