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: 1995-02-07 07:47:05 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!nntpserver.pppl.gov!princeton!gw1.att.com!csn!ub!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!udel!gatech!swrinde!ihnp4.ucsd.edu!munnari.oz.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU!fjh From: fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) Subject: Re: How come so much traffic on comp.lang.ada?? Message-ID: <9503902.5515@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Sender: news@cs.mu.OZ.AU (-) Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia References: Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 15:47:05 GMT Date: 1995-02-07T15:47:05+00:00 List-Id: hbaker@netcom.com (Henry Baker) writes: >I've constantly been amazed by the volume of traffic on comp.lang.ada >relative to comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++. On many days the ratio is >about 1:3, meaning 1 Ada message for every 3 C messages or every 4 C++ >messages. [...] >I can only speculate on the reasons for this: 5. The traffic in a newsgroup is in general not a linear function of the number of people interested in the topic. The higher the traffic, the more work is required to wade through it all, which discourages people. In comp.lang.c++ people regularly complain that the newsgroup is too large and should be split. -- Fergus Henderson - fjh@munta.cs.mu.oz.au all [L] (programming_language(L), L \= "Mercury") => better("Mercury", L) ;-)