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Re: Statistics request: NNTP vs HTTP vs SMTP/POP?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:24:23 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Susan Hoover wrote:
> Mmmm, yummy statistics, thanks! So my suspicion was incorrect overall,
> but sort of correct for recent posts. Maybe it's just that I read the
> newer posts, or that the groups that I do read have more web postings.
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> If, as Richard F suspects, there has been an increase in web usage over
> time, that would make sense. My take on it is that the first LUGnuts
> (or LUGnetters, whichever makes you happy) were refugees from RTL who
> had, for the most part, been using newsreaders to access RTL (except
> for those who used a portal such as Deja). Then, as LUGNET hits
> people's radar and makes it into /. and the SF Chron and other media,
> what is mentioned is not news:lugnet.com but http://www.lugnet.com/, so
> newcomers first experience LUGNET via the web interface.
Another factor: over time, the web-interface has steadily improved,[1]
while the news-interface has remained basically the same. So people are
incentivized to use Lugnet from the web. Also, setting up a newsreader
to get LUGNET takes a certain amount of work, and non-techies are less
likely to bother.
Since the statistics are poster-based, they can't tell us how *readers*
are accessing LUGNET. I suspect that 'message-reads' would show an even
stronger trend toward the web-interface over all other methods.
Steve
--
1) The web-interface's continual improvement is amazing to me. From its
infancy, LUGNET's web-interface as been the best web-based message
system I've seen.
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| (...) I occasionally use the web interface (like when I follow a link to another post by accident instead of using jump to message in Agent), and each time I do I still find that I like my newsreader better. Granted I lose all the extra links on the (...) (25 years ago, 9-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| (...) Mmmm, yummy statistics, thanks! So my suspicion was incorrect overall, but sort of correct for recent posts. Maybe it's just that I read the newer posts, or that the groups that I do read have more web postings. If, as Richard F suspects, (...) (25 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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