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lbecker - 07 Aug 2004 19:36 GMT

I see a few newsgroups for cats in the list of groups.
Is one more active than another?

I see rec.pets.cats and alt.pets.cats

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Jerry Kohl - 07 Aug 2004 19:46 GMT

> I see a few newsgroups for cats in the list of groups.
> Is one more active than another?
>
> I see rec.pets.cats and alt.pets.cats

Also alt.cats, which looks to be slightly more active than either of the
other two,
but only by a slight margin. Look at the statistics for total number of
current
articles, which are 551 alt.cats, 211 alt.pets.cats, and 369
rec.pets.cats.

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Jerry Kohl <jeromekohl@comcast.net>
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David Stevenson - 07 Aug 2004 23:20 GMT

>lbecker wrote:
>
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>articles, which are 551 alt.cats, 211 alt.pets.cats, and 369
>rec.pets.cats.

Details of all official newsgroups are at

http://blakjak.com/cat_news.htm

Note that rec.pets.cats is no longer a recognised newsgroup because it
was split into six. The new ones are for specific topics. The most
active NGs are rec.pets.cats.anecdotes and rec.pets.cats.community.

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lbecker - 08 Aug 2004 00:07 GMT

> Details of all official newsgroups are at
>
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>was split into six. The new ones are for specific topics. The most
>active NGs are rec.pets.cats.anecdotes and rec.pets.cats.community.

Thanks. That is exactly what I was looking for.

- LB

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Jerry Kohl - 08 Aug 2004 00:11 GMT

> >lbecker wrote:
> >
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> was split into six. The new ones are for specific topics. The most
> active NGs are rec.pets.cats.anecdotes and rec.pets.cats.community.

Interesting. Of these groups I have only been reading rec.pets.cats for
years now and never noticed the split. That might account for the noticeable

decrease in traffic starting about two years ago, but there are still 375
active
article on it as of this moment.

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spamtrap - 07 Aug 2004 22:50 GMT

> I see a few newsgroups for cats in the list of groups.
> Is one more active than another?
>
> I see rec.pets.cats and alt.pets.cats

These are all the cat groups my ISP carries along with the current
message counts:

rec.pets.cats.health+behav    10631
rec.pets.cats.anecdotes        2209
rec.pets.cats            248
alt.pets.cats            108
alt.cats            1887

If any of these don't show up in your groups list you need to request
that the group be added by your ISP.

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lbecker - 08 Aug 2004 00:10 GMT

>These are all the cat groups my ISP carries along with the current
>message counts:
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>If any of these don't show up in your groups list you need to request
>that the group be added by your ISP.

Thanks. I get all those and a few others...

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Mike Z. Helm - 10 Aug 2004 06:37 GMT

On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:50:20 -0700, spamtrap <me@privacy.net>

>> I see a few newsgroups for cats in the list of groups.
>> Is one more active than another?
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>rec.pets.cats.anecdotes 2209
>rec.pets.cats 248

2596 on my newsserver

>alt.pets.cats 108

2244

>alt.cats 1887

3787

There were a couple others not mentioned here, but very little traffic
(1 had 1 message, another 20)

>If any of these don't show up in your groups list you need to request
>that the group be added by your ISP.

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Tim May - 10 Aug 2004 06:59 GMT

> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:50:20 -0700, spamtrap <me@privacy.net>
>
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>
> 3787

Idiot. The "current message count" for a particular newsgroup is
dependent on when a reader last read the newsgroup, when the ISP
expires articles, etc.

Reporting to us the trivia of what your newsgroup counts are is f.cking
silly.

Are you retarded? A minority?

--Tim May

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Mike Z. Helm - 10 Aug 2004 07:14 GMT

On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 22:59:34 -0700, Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net>

>> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:50:20 -0700, spamtrap <me@privacy.net>
>>
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>Reporting to us the trivia of what your newsgroup counts are is f.cking
>silly.

I don't find it silly at all. The news server I use (which isn't
necessarily the same as my ISP - Idiot) expires messages based mainly on
time, although space on their servers probably plays into it as well.

The point is, messages from one group or another aren't favored for
expiration any sooner than they are for any other newsgroup.

They are a relative indication of how much traffic there is since my
last visit, and since this is my first visit to any cat-related groups,
it is a fair comparison.

For instance, if I pull up rec.music.phish which I did tonite, there
could be over 40,000 messages (and there were).

I'd say it's safe to say that group gets at least 10 times the traffic
as any of the groups I reported counts for.

I could compare monthly stats from google, or microsoft if they're still
keeping newsgroup stats, but I'm not going to waste my time proving to
you that it shows the message counts I gave are at least a rough
comparison of relative traffic.

>Are you retarded?

No, but you obviously are.

>A minority?

yes, are you a troll?

>--Tim May

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Amy Gray - 15 Aug 2004 15:59 GMT

>I don't find it silly at all. The news server I use (which isn't
>necessarily the same as my ISP - Idiot) expires messages based mainly on
>time, although space on their servers probably plays into it as well.

In some news readers you can set how long to keep old messages. The
usenet newsgroup servers will remove old messages to reuse the
space but some newsgroup readers will allow the user to set
the retention of old messages.

>They are a relative indication of how much traffic there is since my
>last visit, and since this is my first visit to any cat-related groups,
>it is a fair comparison.

Be warned though that may not indicate "actual" traffic. In Forte
Agent you can opt to "ignore" a thread. So when you download
the messages there may be much fewer messages than
actually were posted.

>For instance, if I pull up rec.music.phish which I did tonite, there
>could be over 40,000 messages (and there were).

And they were all covered in mud?

As far as which group to choose to post to? Probably doesn't
matter.

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Christina Websell - 14 Aug 2004 00:07 GMT

> On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 14:50:20 -0700, spamtrap <me@privacy.net>
>
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> >If any of these don't show up in your groups list you need to request
> >that the group be added by your ISP.

rec.pets.cats.anecdotes is a nice supporitve group..

> --
> There's no way to delay that trouble comin' everyday

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Iain Scott - 16 Aug 2004 20:03 GMT

Hi,

Thanks for that list of cat newsgroups! I never knew there were so
many and have linked my newsreader to all of them! Have just been
following on the cat-rescue group a debate on 'kill' and 'no-kill'
shelters which was very enlightening and fascinating.

Iain

>> I see a few newsgroups for cats in the list of groups.
>> Is one more active than another?
[quoted text clipped - 12 lines]
>If any of these don't show up in your groups list you need to request
>that the group be added by your ISP.

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