Re: usage stats

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To: Guido.van.Rossum@cwi.nl
Cc: Nathan Torkington <Nathan.Torkington@vuw.ac.nz>, www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Subject: Re: usage stats 
In-reply-to: Your message of Mon, 19 Apr 93 10:03:06.
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 93 13:39:27 EDT
From: Edward Vielmetti <emv@garnet.msen.com>

Note also that gopher statistics are inflated - there's double counting
(and double sending) of bytes when a gopher server fetches a file by
FTP and then gophers it to the client.

This is a clear case where high byte counts should be seen as a sign
of design defects not wide use...

--Ed