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To: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
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Subject: Re: How many customers read news (was Re: News...)
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Mike Tancsa wrote:

> >But the percentage of customers who look at USENET is small and dropping.
> 
> Not on our system... At peak times, we have about 25% of our customers who
> are currently online reading news.  To me thats a pretty significant
> portion...

When we started, if news was down, 3/4ths of the lines would go empty.
Now when news is down, about 5 guys notice.