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From: paw@coos.dartmouth.edu (Pat Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: BSDI license policy
Date: 14 Mar 1995 21:57:27 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA
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balderd@crocus.sasknet.sk.ca (Dave Balderstone) writes:

>Note that # users means ``number of simultaneous users'':
>        * Each physical person logged in (potentially many times) is
>          a single user

>Compute the `number of users' for your site with this formula:

>        Number_of_users = Number_of_different_people_logged_in +

Wow - BSDI can tell whether it's _me_ logged in as "foo" and "bar"
and only counts me once?  What's it use - typing speed or retinal
scan?

:->

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Pat Wilson
paw@coos.dartmouth.edu