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From: hta@uninett.no (Harald T. Alvestrand)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: *BSD counter: 571 registered users of free BSD versions
Date: 29 Apr 1994 07:13:53 GMT
Organization: Uninett
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Distribution: world
Message-ID: <2pqc3h$h3n@trane.uninett.no>
References: <2ocddi$har@u.cc.utah.edu> <1994Apr13.062300.7830@tmbtax.tambov.su> <2pgd66$be0@trane.uninett.no> <2pmhea$2n1@u.cc.utah.edu>
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In article <2pmhea$2n1@u.cc.utah.edu>, terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes:
|> 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.
As someone else said, requiring the sender (or his gateway to the Internet)
to have a functional mailer is not a harsh requirement.
I am *much* more bothered by the fact that a *huge* percentage of users
will not be registered by the fact that they
- don't have E-mail access at all
- don't read the newsgroups
- don't care.
But as I said before, the purpose of the counters is to establish a
believable lower limit, and give some hints about the "shape of the
world" for these OSes.
--
Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Harald.T.Alvestrand@uninett.no
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My son's name is Torbjørn. The letter between "j" and "r" is o with a slash.