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Article #2Re: Where is everybody?
From: joe mcdonald
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:35
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 09:35
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On 12 Feb 2003 21:08:55 -0800, cx172@ncf.ca (Elat Lerner) wrote: >http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OttawaHiTech/ has over 100 members now >and it is growing at a rate of about 2-3 every week. It is an >unrestricted group with public archives - in other words non-members >can view messages in read-only mode, and membership is open to >everyone who wants to join. 100,000+ topic Usernet Groups with no membership required and the most complete archives on the net going decades back via search engines and not to mention various flavors of different newsreaders still has to compete with yahoo! Its hard to believe but I suspect it has something to do with the topic that draws in a particular audience. >I cannot tell if members are Canadian or not. Most of the members are >lurkers. I believe a couple of the people who participated in >discussions a while ago were American, but most active participants >are Canadians from Ottawa. It would be interesting to find out how many lurkers visit a user group. joe mcdonald cgm@lconn.com ..have you been replaced? news:us.issues.occupations.computer-programmers
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