Re: stats 2024 Q1

Blueshirt <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote at 10:12 this Tuesday (GMT):

Grant Taylor wrote:
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On 4/1/24 12:11, The Doctor wrote:

How did I mangle it?

Something seems to be eating specific select white space.

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FWIW the stats are not mangled on my newsreader. (XanaNews)

Not mangled on mine either (slrn)

It's most predominant when the line is wrapped and continued
on the next line.  But it's also visible in the first four
characters of the unwrapped lines.
 
This is what I see in Thunderbird.  --  I can't rule out a
Thunderbird problem.

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Not seeing it here anyway so it's possibly the latter.
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[Snip]
 
I also question the value of these messages.

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Some people might find them informative. 

I enjoy looking at them, and they're easy to ignore/filter locally if
you don't care.

I similarly question the value of the Usenet FAQ and the
monthly stats articles are far more numerous.  Sometimes they
are even repeated in the same newsgroup.

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Too often and the stats posts can get annoying, quarterly and
yearly would suffice. But they don't seem to do any harm... and
I'm sure there are stat nerds out there that like that sort of
thing.
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I've considered filtering them at my news server.  I just
haven't found sufficient round-2-its to do so yet.
 
These articles aren't discussions in and of themselves.  Just
about every reply I've seen to them has been more of a
complaint or discussion about the complaint.

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Easily skipped, ignored ... or filtered.

maybe
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