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Re: Statistics request: NNTP vs HTTP vs SMTP/POP?
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lugnet.admin.general
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Thu, 9 Mar 2000 03:04:43 GMT
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On Wed, 8 Mar 2000 20:24:23 GMT, Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.general, Susan Hoover wrote:
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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, 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.
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> 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.
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> Steve
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 spotlight pages, but I'm still more comfortable with
Agent then the web interface.
Rob
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| (...) 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 (...) (27 years ago, 8-Mar-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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