On 2009-12-14, BottleBob wrote:
Statistics wrote:
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Total posts considered: 21,371 over 7 days
Earliest article: Mon Dec 14 00:20:04 2009
Latest article: Mon Dec 14 00:42:38 2009


Wes:

It it still you who are posting these stats? On a quick perusal of
Google, it seem the stats have been inaccurate for a couple of months
now. There can't possibly be 20,000 posts per week, probably 1/10 of
that.

My newsfeed sometimes shows up with 1000-2000 articles to
download, which in reality turns out to be a few hundred, of which my
killfile zaps all but about 100. I think what what we are seeing is the
artifact of "sporge" floods which have been cancelled before you (or I)
started up, and as a result, the system tries going by the article
number I last read and the highest article number in the news spool,
subtracting one from the other to get the theoretical number of
articles, but it returns too high because the cancelled articles don't
back down the subsequent article numbers. And it takes too much time
and net resources to actually count what is really there before you come
to read them.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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