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Re: Stupid reactions are appropiate for stupid sigs

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From: Urban F
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 05:30
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gmcquary@Ingres.COM (George F. McQuary) writes:

>...An estimated 10% of all net traffic is asterisks ...

Methinks it is slightly less than that, but the following statistics
by Christophe Wolfhugel shows that it must be quite a lot anyway:
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Number of articles sampled:        101460 articles

Field              Kb     %hdr    %nohdr
----------------------------------------
Kbytes:      214963.56   100.00   ---.--
Headers:      81137.33    37.74   ---.--
Body:        133826.24    62.26   100.00
Useful:      116089.84    54.00    86.75
Signatures:    6522.37     3.03     4.87
Quoting:      11214.03     5.22     8.38
[...]
- signatures are counted from line '-- '. So exotic signatures are bypassed.
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 Urban Fredriksson urf@icl.se (Or: N.G.U.Fredriksson.swe2001@oasis.icl.co.uk)
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From: urf@ki.icl.se (Urban F)
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Subject: Re: Stupid reactions are appropiate for stupid sigs
Keywords: The clueless mire rises.
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Date: 4 Aug 92 05:30:46 GMT
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