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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bruce.cs.monash.edu.au!berndm From: berndm@cs.monash.edu.au (Bernd U Meyer) Subject: Re: Some more statistics about *BSD Message-ID: <berndm.770920117@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au> Sender: news@bruce.cs.monash.edu.au (USENET News System) Organization: Computer Science, Monash University, Australia References: <Cqx5M1.nG@luva.stgt.sub.org> <Cqys61.CtB@hippo.ru.ac.za> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 1994 16:28:37 GMT Lines: 34 csgr@cs.ru.ac.za (Geoff Rehmet) writes: >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. Maybe it is of interest that the statistics for linux look nearly the same relatively. The counter is somewhere around 5500 self registered users, and before a space problem on the ^&%&%^%&&^ newsserver killed my collection, I had counted nearly 7000 valid email adresses from posts to the linux groups (but at manual inspection, there were quite a few doubles, where people posted from different machines in the same cluster, or using different newsreaders producing different headers etc). I'm currently in the process of rebuilding that list, and hope to check to what degree the groups overlap in the near future (the linux counter can send a selection of email adresses). That may give a new lower bound... Bernie -- "And the band played 'Waltzing Mathilda' / as we stopped to bury our slain; And we buried ours / and the Turks buried theirs | ..... living in Oz .... And it started all over again" | (The Pogues, "Waltzing Mathilda", orig by Eric Bogle, "And the band played WM")