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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!ames!decwrl!pa.dec.com!usenet.pa.dec.com!jkh From: jkh@nx.ilo.dec.com (Jordan Hubbard) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 652 registered users of free BSD versions Date: 02 Jun 1994 10:14:54 GMT Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation, Galway Ireland Lines: 21 Message-ID: <JKH.94Jun2111454@nx.ilo.dec.com> References: <2sgmil$rui@aun.uninett.no> <2siau3$j2q@fw.novatel.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: nx.ilo.dec.com In-reply-to: hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca's message of 1 Jun 1994 15:53:38 GMT In article <2siau3$j2q@fw.novatel.ca> hpeyerl@sidney.novatel.ca (Herb Peyerl) writes: > [ .. needless vituperation deleted ..] > So; in my opinion: Either shit or get off the pot! Oh dear, is there something in the water up there in Canada? You remind me of someone else with a similar address.. No matter. I think you have to take into account the fact that until this counter came along, as "useless" it may be for various statistical purposes, there was nothing else to even come close to filling the void. To be sure, some of us have also had our doubts as to the veracity of the counter, and it has always seemed suspicious that out of a projected user base of some 250K users we have only 652 signed up, but hey! Who are we to argue when we don't have anything more credible of our own to offer? So we simply encourage people to make themselves more visible and we go about our business rather than needless flaming those who are at least TRYING to do something. So easy to tear down, so much harder to build. Jordan