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Re: Who keeps the COLA stats?

  • Subject: Re: Who keeps the COLA stats?
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 06 May 2006 10:55:21 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: schestowitz.com / MCC / Manchester University
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__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 06 May 2006 10:48 \__

> begin  oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Saturday 06 May 2006 07:22 \__
>> 
>>> begin  oe_protect.scr
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> __/ [ Larry Qualig ] on Friday 05 May 2006 13:31 \__
>>>> 
>>>>> Ramon F Herrera wrote:
>>>>>> Hello fellow posters:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are the COLA stats exclusive to COLA?  Could the folks in charge
>>>>>> please add another newsgroup to their data collecting engine?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There is another NG where the all-powerful (akin to Windows) and the
>>>>>> underdog (such as Linux) are being pitted against each other, and
>>>>>> stats would help.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You may write to ramon at jonjay dot com.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ramon
>>>>> 
>>>>> Google *automatically* posts stats for every newsgroup it hosts. I
>>>>> believe this happens around midnight on Sunday.
>>>>  
>>>> Larry, there isn't much point in replying to flamebait. See the previous
>>>> couple of threads, both initiated by the same person in the past 24
>>>> hours.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> I think you're wasting time trying to educate our trolls about, err,
>>> trolls.
>> 
>> I don't perceive Qualig as a troll. Other people deserve to have other
>> opinions and I respect that.
>> 
> 
> They do, of course, and they're welcome to post them in the appropriate
> groups.  Here, they're off-topic and/or trolls, of course.

I guess that history's lessons say that I should take your word. As you can
imagine, it's hard to embrace prejudice based on word of mouth while
personal experience suggests otherwise. I feel entangled here, but I'll
cope.

Roy

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