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Posted by benben on 09/27/06 05:58
> These charts are a rather misleading I think. The number of newsgroup
> postings for a language is inversely proportional to the amount of the
> information about it on the internet. When someone can google an answer
> to his question, he's not going to start a thread. Thus activity in the
> newsgroup is bound to fall over time following a peak, even as interest
> in the language remains strong.
>
The numbers are also affected by accessibility to the newsgroups, you
know, the eternal September effect...
Ben
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