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Re: most popular newsgroups
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Date: 
Sat, 5 Oct 2002 15:50:59 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?

Well, the robotics subgroup has a couple things going for it. #1, it got a
head start. Back when all the theme subgroups started up (Sep 18, 1999*),
robotics already had 14,386 posts. Same goes for the Star Wars and Trains
subgroups (although they had a much smaller head start). #2, the robotics
subgroup consists of *some* newsgroups which aren't "Lugnet" per se. And of
course, #3, anyone who's techhie enough to enjoy Lego robotics probably also
is probably into posting questions and answers to newsgroups, etc. :)

DaveE

(*) - Ah, I remember that day. Checking Lugnet, and realizing there were
things like a *CASTLE* subgroup! And *SPACE*! I was so enthused...



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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 (...) (22 years ago, 4-Oct-02, to lugnet.general)  

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