From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,18660da2464b3277 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-02-11 05:48:58 PST Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!newsfeed.pitt.edu!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!panix!cmcl2!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!thecourier.cims.nyu.edu!nobody From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Date: 11 Feb 1995 08:48:58 -0500 Organization: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Message-ID: <3hif8a$b8c@gnat.cs.nyu.edu> References: <3gp75m$mge@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: gnat.cs.nyu.edu Date: 1995-02-11T08:48:58-05:00 List-Id: Actually there is a much more obvious reason why the number of messages is not linear with use, and that has to do with general volume and bandwidth. A newsgroup with much more than 150 messages a day gets hard to follow, so fewer follow it, so the volume tends to be self limiting.