From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 16 05:37:27 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A0716A420 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:37:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: from parts-unknown.org (37.sub-70-198-227.myvzw.com [70.198.227.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F31ED43D45 for ; Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:37:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from benfell@parts-unknown.org) Received: (qmail 16201 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2006 05:37:25 -0000 Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 21:37:25 -0800 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060216053725.GB15586@parts-unknown.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060216005036.L60635@ganymede.hub.org> X-stardate: [-29]5326.14 X-moon: The Moon is Waning Gibbous (92% of Full) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.7i Subject: Re: [Total OT] Trying to improve some numbers ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Feb 2006 05:37:27 -0000 On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 01:01:33 -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > FreeBSD is showing 4th place right now behind Linux, SunOS and Netware for > Average Uptimes ... with ours being an average of 120 days > Which shows yet again how utterly worthless this kind of rating is. So here's the problem as *I* see it: Do you participate in such silliness for dubious PR value at the risk of supporting the use of invalid methodology, or do you refuse at the risk of appearing to have something to hide? Now, the way I frame this makes pretty clear *my* preference, but possibly others have other ways to frame it. -- David Benfell, LCP benfell@parts-unknown.org --- Resume available at http://www.parts-unknown.org/