How Did I Miss This One 3707Then the solution is obvious. ;) Remember, this is sunny SoCal - you should be able to bike most of the time, and then ride...
Hit the post button too quickly on the last one.
Actually my logic is sound. Let me explain. First off, the majority of posters on Usenet DO NOT use outhouse express. The majority use a large number of other programs, most of which typical Windows users have never heard of, and even if they did, they would be incapable of using. The majority of Usenet users are not those who download love and spam groups such as this. Although I grant that the majority of bandwidth may be love...
This group I refer to are mostly very technical people. The very people who build and maintain the systems that we rely on to "surf the web". The very systems that outhouse express users aren't even aware of. I guarantee you that the overwhelming majority of outhouse express users could not even understand how the Internet works, and have no idea what the difference is between NNTP, SMTP, HTTP and other protocols. Now of course we will have to put up with those who will now claim to be experts because they were able to use Google to find what these stand for, but we all know that is a ruse.
So, if we buttume that say 70% of Usenet users are technical people, and that as a rule, less than 10% of them use outhouse express ( I doubt it is that high! ), that gives us say 63% of all users who don't touch that crappy MS program. Now of the other 30% of Usenet users, a significant number of them have the inate intelligence to realize that outhouse express is not a news reader, and never will be. These are the same ones who would not think of calling it an E-Mail program either, because, well, they have brains. Let's buttume that half of this group use something other than outhouse express.
How Did I Miss This One 3706On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:10:05 -0800, Scott en Aztl‡n The Coaster runs along I-5, the Sprinter runs along CA-78 with at-grade crossings, and stations every mile or two. It's...
That gives us 78% of users who actually understand that MS is not the end all be all of software companies, who have further decided to use one of the many alternatives (if you can call preexisting software alternatives). Now, of the 22% left, the ones who by my contrived example use outhouse express, some percentage of them are top posters. Keep in mind that pretty much nobody who uses a 'gasp' alternative program on Usenet top posts. So, we come to the conclusion that:
Wow. See how that works? Now, I grant that I am making these numbers up. However, if someone wants to do a statistical sampling, I am sure we can come up with real numbers. I guarantee that the number of 'alternative news reader client' users who top post approaches zero, and that the number of users who top post refuse to acknowledge that outhouse express is not a news reader. Simple logic, really.
************************* Dave
