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Re: SRH Reorganiztion Bias: Low Activity/Delays in Posting
In article <4bfp35$5tn@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Ajay Shah <editor@rbhatnagar.csm.uc.edu> wrote:
>In fact any statistics derived from the archival dates are
>bound to be skewed as well.
This is strictly not true. Don't try to pass this one off on us, I (and also
Mani) know MHonArc as well as you do. The "Date" field shown on any news
article processed by MHonArc is the time it was _posted_, not the time it
was added to the archive. The time of addition to the archive is
reflected in the UNIX directory, but _not_ in the archive produced
by MHonArc, which you and I both use to generate archives.
We used the Date field appearing in the MHonArc'ed posts, not in the
UNIX directory, to generate the following statistics page. So, the dates
we got were the dates the news messages were _posted_.
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~vijaypai/srh-stats.html
Yours,
Vijay
Submitted Dec 22, 1995 around 9:11 PM CST
