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From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
Subject: Re: News...
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>Hell, a very large percentage of ISP customers are using it for pornography.
>Sex sells, always has, always will.  The news statistics SHOW it, what, in
the
>top 100 read newsgroups 90% are alt.binaries.* related.  If you dont carry
>those groups, you lose/dont get customers, period.

For better or for worse, I agree with the above observation... Sex sells..
Sometimes when people ask me what I do for a living, sometimes I feel like
smirking, "a purveyor or pornography"... In our neck of the woods, I asked
a few of our competitors what their news reader's habits were like, and it
generally jived with what we see... Out of the top 100 newsgroups accessed
on our system, 5 were non sex/porn/erotica (however, you want to classify
it) related.  Now, whether or not, its a small group of people hitting the
news server hard, or a wide cross section of our customer base, is hard to
know.  I have never bothered to take the time to analyze it like that...
But as someone else posted, if the news server goes down, the phone starts
a ringin faster than a UPS can cutover!

	---Mike
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