From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Apr 16 10:46:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA26049 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 10:46:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bsd.synx.com (rt.synx.com [194.167.81.239]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA25928 for ; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:45:16 GMT (envelope-from remy@synx.com) Received: from s3.synx.com (s3 [192.1.1.247]) by bsd.synx.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA05495; Thu, 16 Apr 1998 18:49:59 +0100 Received: from rs1 by s3.synx.com id aa02602; 16 Apr 98 19:34 BST Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 17:34:24 -0100 (GMT) From: Remy NONNENMACHER To: dwilde1@ibm.net cc: freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how about a hard count? In-Reply-To: <353640FE.29DFF4AA@partsnow.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Don Wilde wrote: > Let's see if we can get an approximate count of FreeBSD machines out there in > the world. I'm going to make up a short 'survey form', and I think if we sift > the 'questions' list for addresses we ought to be able to get a first-level > approximation of people who are using or have installed FreeBSD. Part of the > survey will be for those who are queried to pass it along. Alternatively, we can > add a few lines to the online registration form to account for multiple machines > at one site. The e-mail, then, can be just a notification that we're asking for > registration updates. Then, a running counter on the home page would be a good > hook! > And count users !!. Too many statistics take boxes into account but one FreeBSD serving 10 users is 10 time one W$ thing serving 1 user. > No more bogus statistics, let's find out! Let's the world learn it is ruled by Unix!! > -- > oooOOO O O O o * * * * * * > o ___ _________ _________ ________ _________ _________ ___==_ > V_=_=_DW ===--- Don Wilde [don@PartsNow.com] [http://www.PartsNow.com ] > /oo0000oo-oo--oo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo--ooo-ooo---ooo-ooo---ooo-oo--oo >  > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message