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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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