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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: a monthly FreeBSD magazine (and other *BSD's too)
Date: 20 Dec 1995 22:50:57 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <HAFNER.95Dec12090710@suncog2.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de> <4akmcp$qii@daffy.anetsrvcs.uwrf.edu> <4al9tu$f33@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> <4alnqo$1hi@clarknet.clark.net> <4am5uq$r24@agate.berkeley.edu> <4arhgi$f0c@felix.junction.net> <4as2e7$91r@cnn.princeton.edu> <4asrpo$85k@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atie8$hsv@agate.berkeley.edu> <4atq47$l46@agate.berkeley.edu> <4att23$mha@agate.berkeley.edu> <4au4fo$pbo@agate.berkeley.edu> <4av7jh$k48@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <4avg1j$dab@agate.b
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nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) writes:
> >You could also estimate the number of BSD users by the number of
> >different users that posted to netnews :-).
>
> I was thinking about that. Unfortunately, I don't have access
> to a news server. I would have to do all the accesses via NNTP,
> which would be really slow. :(
j@uriah 236% ls -1 /var/spool/news/comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/* | wc -l
893
j@uriah 237% grep -h ^From: /var/spool/news/comp/unix/bsd/freebsd/misc/* |\
sort -u | wc -l
399
My expiration time is 10 days.
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)