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Thanks for your efforts!  So it seems the "conservative" half of the
dichotomy was in use in Lincoln's time, with the other side within his
party labeled "radical."  I guess at some later date the older term,
"liberal" supplanted "radical."
Anyway you've certainly earned the modest fee I offered so do mark
this question "closed."
-R

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Thank you so much for all your hard work on this Ephraim.  I knew it
was a tall order but really wanted the "personal touch" with this one
from a true New Yorker and you came up trumps (sorry - British
expression I think).  I am even more excited about my trip now.  Thank
you again.

Pretty good.  Got back to me very quickly with original answer an a clarification.

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Thank you, the information you provided me with will help me a lot!

Hello. Thanks a lot for your answer. You where very helpfull.

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Thanks,Ephraim!  Your answer was fabulous.  Here's how I got my final
answer... I called NewsAdmin.com and spoke to a sales rep.  He said
that they accept about 1.5 million new messages per day (not including
rejected spam).  Then, I estimated the number of UUENCODED messages
per day by using Netscan.com (alt.bin* for the month of Sep.).  I was
able to add the fields by selecting all, copy/paste to notepad,
deleting extraneous data from top and bottom, opening with Excel
(delimited using spaces), and then summing the column (articles per
day).  I took that number (7,919,573), divided by 30 (263,985 per day
in Sep.), and subtracted that number from 1.5 million.  My estimated
answer was 1,236,015 (non-spam, non-binary) NNTP articles per day (or,
17.6% are UUENCODED).  Do you think this is a good guess?  Has my math
or logic failed anywhere that you can see?  Do you have any idea how
many UUENCODED messages per day exist outside of alt.bin*?  Thanks
again, Ephraim!

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Excellent answer. All details of the question covered. Results were
customized to focus on my local area. Speedy response to both question
and request for clarification. Thank you very much.

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Good starting point to continue my research. Keep up the good work

Excellent answer and all details of the question covered and a speedy
response as well.  Thank you very much.