Re: comp.sources.reviewed and a blast from the past

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From: Rich Salz
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 15:21

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People on the net have written an amazingly large number of useful packages,
yet for comp.sources.reviewed:
    The ratio of administrative articles to sources postings is amazingly high.
    The number of programs posted per month is amazingly low.
    The total number of distinct* packages posted is amazingly low.
    The percentage of submissions that do not get resubmitted is too high.
    The number of initial submissions is amazingly low.

I believe the group is about as useless as c.s.unix was at its worst.

	/rich $alz, former moderator
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*E.g., two versions of mawk count as one distinct program.

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