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 hundreds if not thousands




From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: OPEN LETTER (was Re: MOTTO!)
Date: 5 Dec 1993 00:54:40 GMT

ObUL: this business of your posting "costing the net hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars". From News.lists, data for alt.folklore.urban, March 1993 (the most recent one I bothered to save): 

Estimated Readers:              61000
Cost per reader per month:      $0.12
Posts per month:                3451

So, the total cost for AFU for March was $0.12*61000 = $7,320.00 So the cost per post is $2.12. "Hundreds if not thousands"?! Sounds like someone slipped a digit while estimating the order of magnitude.

Brian "next time, use a calculator" Scearce


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