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Winship wrote:
> Well, my digest subscribers think it is time well spent and *does* make a
> difference to them (I've a couple of thousand digest subscribers, all
> told).
I am the co-owner of a discussion list with approximately 1300 subscribers.
One of the subscribers posts a monthly statistical summary of list activity.
The summary includes an Original Content Rating - the ratio of original
(non-quoted) material to total material in the bodies of the messages. In
recent months, the OCR has usually been in the 65% to 70% range, although it
fell to 50% in October. Based on the amount of quoted material I see in both
personal and list mail, I suspect that our OCR of 65% is unusually high, and
I can understand why Douglas' digest subscribers appreciate his efforts.
--
Paul Russell
Senior Systems Administrator
University of Notre Dame
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