re how many read sci space in article apr sol uvic ca rborden ugly uvic ca ross borden writes in article qjs j access digex net prb access digex com pat writes in the old days their used to be arbitron stats that analyzed the readership and posting volumes by group and user they were available from uunet that s how you check the readership of sci space not some stupid unscientific attempt to flood the newsgroup i have abetter idea why don t we all reply directly to the origanator of this post and tell him we read sci space pat sigh i try to make a little joke i try to inject some humour here and what happens in the immortal words of foghorn leghorn i say that was a joke son i thought that the bit about mcelwaine not to mention the two smileys would indicate to even the most humour impaired that i was joking sigh and will everyone who pat s suggestion thanks bunches pat please stop sending me email i shot a man just to watch him die ross borden i m going to disneyland rborden ra uvic ca now i had put a wink at the end of my suggestion indicating it was intensely sarcastic i can t help it if everyone got all serious ross i never saw your original posting it dropped on the floor somewhere i just saw the trickle down thought it was intensely stupid not knowing anything about the joke mentioned arbitron and left it with an equally stupid joke bill in his ever increasing devotion to thoroughness dug up several arbitron stats i myself think the arbitron stats are severely methodologically impaired but are a good measure of proportion i don t think anyone knows how many people read news anymore pat
