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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!news.kei.com!eff!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.intercon.com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!cwis.isu.edu!u.cc.utah.edu!cs.weber.edu!terry From: terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Counting 386bsd users Date: 6 Jan 1994 22:47:45 GMT Organization: Weber State University, Ogden, UT Lines: 28 Message-ID: <2gi4eh$ip@u.cc.utah.edu> References: <2gebut$f2t@trane.uninett.no> <1994Jan6.023601.24079@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: cs.weber.edu Keywords: linux bsd counting In article <1994Jan6.023601.24079@sserve.cc.adfa.oz.au> wkt@cserve.cs.adfa.oz.au (Warren Toomey) writes: >This is a short followup to Harald Alvestrand's request for email to count >the number of *BSD users, for those interested in trivia. Actually, I found the following: o The first address didn't resolve for me o The second address didn't resolve for me o As a result of the above, the email to both bounced o I would prefer leaving "386", "Free" and "Net" out of it or counting them seperately so that an agregate total could be had (ie: tying it to "Free" is as bad as tying it to "386" as far as making people think they shouldn't respond). >At the end of the article is a quick statistical look at the frequency of >people's postings. 2,495 people have posted only one article, and one person >has posted 838 articles :-) Can you give us a "top 10 posters" list?. Or a "top 11" to get everyone who posted over 200? 8-). Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.