Netscan and Python

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.35.1076810936.31398.python-list at python.org>,
Paul Prescod  <paul at prescod.net> wrote:
>
>According to Netscan,
>comp.lang.python was the 19th most popular Usenet newsgroup in 1999

Based on the rest of the post, I'm assuming you meant to say
"comp.lang.*" instead of "Usenet".  There's also the question of whether
popularity is best measured by number of posts -- I'm sure the
readership of rec.humor.funny still far outweighs comp.lang.python.
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