On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 19:43:39 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote in :

According to Google's count, there were 6149 posts to this group last
month, more than in any other month except September, 2001 (which saw 9341
posts due no doubt to discussions about the 9/11 attacks) and September,
2005, which saw 6262 posts, according to Google's counters.

Source for the numbers came from he
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.a...ng/about?hl=en


Those figures have to be incorrect. Jay can't be wrong:

From: "Jay Honeck"
Newsgroups: rec.aviation.piloting
Subject: Usenet Intimidation: (Was: NW_Pilot's Trans-Atlantic
Flight -- All the scary details...)
Date: 2 Oct 2006 20:51:41 -0700
Message-ID: . com

but (in case you haven't noticed) the posting group has recently
shrunk to historically low numbers.

:-)