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Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Tue 23 Feb 1999)
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Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:33:14 GMT
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 05:00:25 GMT, news@lugnet.com (LUGNET Server) wrote:

>       Time Intervals / Digests           Histogram%
>   =================================      ==========
>   0 Immediately     6 Every 6 hours      -  >0-20
>   1 Hourly          8 Every 8 hours      =  20-40
>   2 Every 2 hours   d Twice daily        o  40-60
>   3 Every 3 hours   D Once Daily         O  60-80
>   4 Every 4 hours   W Once Weekly        @  80-100
> 
> 
>   #S = Number of subscriptions
>   #U = Number of unique subscribers
> 
> 
> 0123468dDW      #S    #U  WORLDWIDE GROUPS • ...
> @         |      5     5  lugnet.admin.database

I'm confused.  How can there be 80-100 immediate-delivery subscribers,
but only 5 subscriptions?

Steve



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  Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Tue 23 Feb 1999)
 
(...) Because there aren't 80-100 subscribers. :) The symbols are histogram *percentages*. @ means 80%-100%, so it would mean either 4 or 5 people out of 5 in this case. --Todd (28 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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