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From: faught@zeppelin.convex.com (Danny R. Faught)
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Subject: Re: Usenet statistics
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:43:44 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <199607231930.PAA22739@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU> from "- Pam Greene" at Jul 23, 96 03:30:40 pm
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Resent-From: - Pam Greene <pgreene@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>

> We do try to remove postings from the List of Periodic Informational
> Postings when they're no longer available, but the effort is hindered
> by at least twothings.  First, some FAQs aren't posted very
> frequently, so it can be difficult for us to tell when they're defunct
> and when they're just on "extended vacation".  Second, we haven't had
> the time to do full archive maintenance in some months now.  I have
> now removed the postings you refer to.

In this case, something had removed the old files from the archive
anyway.  I agree that's it's hard to tell when they should be removed in
the first place.

I don't see any sort of usenet statistics in news.lists.  If you do see
anything, please let me know.

Thanks,
Danny