Sheer numbers is what I was thinking of. Signal to noise and all that.
"Penny Gaines" wrote in message
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SarahH wrote in :
Fair enough Once a week I collate all the a.m postings (just the
subject/poster info) and publish them. It looks like this (hope no one
minds the reposting to another group) (snipped for brevity):
Newsgroup 'alt.mothers' - Weekly Stats 05-Oct-03
Generated by Sarah
[snip]
------------------------START SECTION 'POSTERS'-----------------------
[snip]
--------------------START SECTION 'BANDWIDTH HOGS!'-------------------
[snip]
I don't mind the general stats about number of posts etc, but I don't like
the idea of having detailed analysis of my posting habits being made
public.
I know that anyone could work them out via google etc, but I don't want
things made too easy for them.
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Penny Gaines
UK mum to three