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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!library.ucla.edu!agate!darkstar.UCSC.EDU!news.hal.COM!olivea!grapevine.lcs.mit.edu!ginger.lcs.mit.edu!wollman From: wollman@ginger.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions Date: 28 Apr 1994 02:51:26 GMT Organization: MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Lines: 26 Message-ID: <2pn8be$1nl@GRAPEVINE.LCS.MIT.EDU> References: <2ocddi$har@u.cc.utah.edu> <1994Apr13.062300.7830@tmbtax.tambov.su> <2pgd66$be0@trane.uninett.no> <2pmhea$2n1@u.cc.utah.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ginger.lcs.mit.edu In article <2pmhea$2n1@u.cc.utah.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote: >I have a big problem (can you tell?) with counters that supposedly >count the number of users of something, but which in fact the >majority of users are completely unable to be counted. If the administrators of those sites can't be bothered to install, six years after the fact, a properly-working mail transfer agent, or if their vendors can't be bothered to ship one, then they deserve to lose. If people registering are doing the right thing to begin with and sending their messages from their BSD machine, then they won't have this problem because all values of *BSD come with a 1990's-style mailer. Sorry, Terry, but your argument is just plain bogus. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. formerly known as | It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people wollman@emba.uvm.edu | who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant