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Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Tue 23 Feb 1999)
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Tue, 23 Feb 1999 17:43:00 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, blisses@worldnet.att.net (Steve Bliss) writes:
> 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

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



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  Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Tue 23 Feb 1999)
 
(...) Oh, duh on me. Steve (28 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: News-by-Mail Subscriptions (Tue 23 Feb 1999)
 
(...) ... (...) I'm confused. How can there be 80-100 immediate-delivery subscribers, but only 5 subscriptions? Steve (28 years ago, 23-Feb-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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