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From: csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet)
Subject: Re: Some more statistics about *BSD
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Organization: Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa
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Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 07:15:36 GMT
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In <Cqx5M1.nG@luva.stgt.sub.org> migieger@luva.stgt.sub.org (Michael Giegerich) writes:
>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...
Which seems to say that the coverage of the BSD counter is pretty much
the same as the BSD newsgroups, but doesn't say much else about the
usage of *BSD. For that matter, I know a number of people in South
Africa who run FreeBSD, but who have never posted to any of the BSD
newsgroups.
I think we don't stand much chance of finding an accurate way of getting
stats on the total number of *BSD users. It looks though, like people
reading UseNet have responded pretty well to registering on the counter.
It's a pity that it is so difficult to get an accurate reflection of the
installed base of *BSD.
Geoff.
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