Re: Discussion: rmgroup comp.software.year-2000

From: LX-i (lxi0007_at_netscape.net)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 18:26:15 -0600

Jamie Andrews; real address @ bottom of message wrote:
> On 25 Feb 2004, I analyzed the articles on csy2k stored on
> the comprehensive Usenet server "news.individual.net" from 18
> Sep 2003 (the date of the first article still stored) to 25 Feb
> 2004. There were 144 threads, containing a total of 701
> articles. 60 of the threads contained more than one article,
> with the remaining 81 containing only one article each.
> I classified the threads into 6 types, and counted the number of
> threads of each type. (The full listing of the threads and
> their classification is below, after my signature.) The result was:
>
...
> - P (Political) -- threads (not having to do with the above
> topics) about politics, conspiracies and issues of corporate
> governance: 59 threads
>
> - F (Flame) -- threads apparently started by long-time posters
> in order to flame other long-time posters: 15 threads

That's 'cause you folks have Habitant...

> - The second consists of one article saying that there was a
> Y2K-related discussion currently on comp.lang.cobol.

Yeah - that was one where "any date problem is a Y2K problem" was one of
the arguments - I remember that. :)

I sympathize with your plight - however, if you shut that newsgroup
down, the 4 or so (your number) regular folks will have to find
somewhere else to do their flaming and conspiracy theorizing... I'd
personally say to leave it out there, and every so often post a message
directing serious date-related question issues to your other
aforementioned newsgroups. 

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