Re: Another Fortran forum (without the spam)?

On Wed, 20 Apr 2011 16:50:19 -0700, nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard
Maine) wrote:

Terence <tbwright@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Apr 21, 9:32 am, nos...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Richard Maine) wrote:
On 4/20/2011 6:12 PM, Terence wrote:
On Apr 19, 11:39 pm, dpb<n...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Because of the c-l-f membership figures (used to be one of the
highest).

"membership" isn't even a meaningful concept for
newsgroups.
..
Google counts the items posted per month; NOT the readership.
I thought that was clear.

Apparently not to all of us. I don't actually go around trying to
research what unspecified statistics you might be referring to. I just
read the words as posted. When you use the word "membership" (your exact
word), that sure doesn't translate to "items posted" to me.

In his defense, I think that has to do with the meaningful terms that
completely lost its meaning with the introduction of google's
services.
What was once usenet/news "became" in a way google "groups".
news became rss feeds, and usenet became some sort of illegal software
downloading service(?) ...

Since one, if I understood correctly, needs to be a "member" (or
something of a kind) of a group (google group), therefore the term
"membership".

Sebastian
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