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Path: num2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!num1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!number.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!postnews.google.com!z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Message-ID: <741d771c-650f-4dd9-b65b-7d8338d99ed9@z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com> From: Nuxx Bar  Newsgroups: uk.net.news.moderation Subject: Re: Moderated cycling group : posts rejected Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 14:12:02 -0700 (PDT) References: <87fwpu18pb.fsf@araminta.anjou.terraraq.org.uk> <906104FourU2@mid.individual.net> Lines: 15 Organization: http://groups.google.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 82.71.49.124 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1302210722 24398 127.0.0.1 (7 Apr 2011 21:12:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 21:12:02 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z37g2000vbl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=82.71.49.124; posting-account=WrLs9woAAAD151hWKA9yknAtxFHW4kE4 User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.16) Gecko/20110319 Firefox/3.6.16,gzip(gfe) Bytes: 1943 Xref: perfectly-safe.chapmancentral.co.uk uk.net.news.moderation:40525

On Apr 7, 3:45=A0pm, Tony Raven  wrote: > Richard Kettlewell  wrote: > > > If uk.* in particular is declining then it's doing so very slowly at th= e > > moment; it's bumped around between three and four thousand articles per > > day for about the last year (i.e. since I started taking a close > > interest in the 'decline of Usenet') with no readily discernible trend. > > how many of those articles are real articles and how many newsgroups > filling up with spam?

You mean (shock horror) you'd count articles disagreeing with your position as "real articles"? Even when they're from "trolls"? Have you perhaps fallen out of your nest and sustained a blow to the head?