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Re: most popular newsgroups
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lugnet.general
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Sat, 5 Oct 2002 03:13:51 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Bruce Hietbrink writes:
> Okay, this brings me to my big surprise - robotics at 35000. (!) I'd
> thought of this as a relatively small niche of Lego builders. Twice as much
> volume as Trains? or Space? or Castle? Are there really twice as many
> people using Mindstorms than making spaceships (or castles, or whatever)?
> Or do robotics people post twice as much? Any thoughts?
My understanding is you don't have to be part of Lugnet to post to .robotics
so that group has a much bigger pool of readers/posters. James B. explained
that that was why some of the names of the people posting to .robotics
appear on the web interface in a light gray color-- they are posting from
someplace outside Lugnet. That must have something to do with the numbers.
See
http://news.lugnet.com/faq/?n=1212&t=f&v=a
Maggie C.
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| (...) I think James Brown provides a reasonable explanation that most can understand. I think this is why: Note: The lugnet.robotics newsgroup and the lugnet.robotics@lugnet.com mailing lists are gatewayed with the lego-robotics@crynwr.com mailing (...) (24 years ago, 5-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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| Hi all, I was just looking at the total volume of posts per group and was surprised at something: As expected, themes like castle, space, star wars, and trains are among the highest volume with 16000, 18000, 14000, and 19000 posts. These really seem (...) (24 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)
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