Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.kei.com!nntp.et.byu.edu!news.caldera.com!park.uvsc.edu!usenet
From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: 19 Dec 1995 21:14:53 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <4b7a0d$1t5@park.uvsc.edu>
References: <4ajc07$sb7@unix2.glink.net.hk> <4av7jh$k48@orion.cc.andrews.edu> <4avg1j$dab@agate.berkeley.edu> <4b5hu1$t52@rover.village.org> <4b5sm4$bn3@agate.berkeley.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: hecate.artisoft.com
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.advocacy:31138 alt.os.linux:6623 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:10984 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1643
nickkral@parker.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote:
]
] In article <4b5hu1$t52@rover.village.org>, Warner Losh <imp@village.org> wrote:
] >That should be doable. However, if you weren't so lazy, you'd already
] >have them. From time to time they are posted to freebsd-hackers, and
] >that mailing list is archived.
]
] Ahhh, yet another childish attempt at a personal attack by a *BSD
] advocate. Lazy, am I? Unfortunately, I wasn't aware that the statistics
] were posted to freebsd-hackers, since I don't read that mailing list.
] I will, however, look up the numbers you refered to. Thank you for your
] input, even if it was meant as a flame. *sigh* Let me repeat this
] again: It was not lazyness, but the fact that I didn't know the
] numbers were sent to an obscure mailing list. After all, the
] FTP statistics for ftp.cdrom.com apply more than just to FreeBSD.
Begging your pardon, but is this just a general call for statistics,
or is it a call for meritorious statistics?
If the latter, how can you determine the relative merit (which
you then use as a weighting factor) for a statistic for a market
that you are so ignorant as to not be aware of its primary channel
for communication?
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
---
Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.