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From: migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich)
Subject: Some more statistics about *BSD
Organization: private FreeBSD site
Date: Sun, 5 Jun 1994 10:10:34 GMT
Message-ID: <Cqx5M1.nG@luva.stgt.sub.org>
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Hi,
reading about the BSD-counter I took a look at the articles
posted to c.o.3.* in order to make some more statistics :-)
BTW, flames > /dev/null
Taking the `From: ' field from the news articles as input for
all statistics it gave the following results:
(Yes, I didn't sum together Jordan's 10+ mail addresses -
he counts for 10 anyway and I am too lazy :-)
- all posts in about the last 7 months: 9751 (the database)
- these articles were posted from 2317 different people
- the repartition of the articles/posters is as follows:
articles: 1 posters: 1179
2 404
3-5 396 \
6-10 179 |
11-50 144 > 734
51-100 6 |
100+ 9 /
Making the assumption that nearly all *BSD users have news
access :-) and post more than just one or two articles we have
about 700 users (?) or at least 700 more than only casual posters
(with 2+ articles)...
IMO, the figures reflect well the actual BSD-counter figure of
nearly 700 registrations...
Some remarks:
- Perhaps one of the official archive sites should remake the
whole thing from the beginning of c.o.3.*
(I can't imagine that somebody began with 386bsd and doesn't
use *BSD any more :-)
- Is it possible to make such a thing taking into account the
*BSD maillists too?
For the curious, here are the TOP 10 posters:
86 jkh@whisker.hubbard.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
103 terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C)
107 storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER)
127 burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess)
144 michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
153 mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
174 jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard)
204 hasty@netcom.com (Amancio Hasty Jr)
220 jmonroy@netcom.com (Jesus Monroy Jr)
324 nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Bye,
-Michael
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Michael Giegerich | migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org
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