Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:59:55 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: ctm-users@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs-cur Message-ID: <4936.1048935595@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2003 11:30:57 %2B0100." <200303291031.h2TAUw378946@flip.jhs.private>
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In message <200303291031.h2TAUw378946@flip.jhs.private>, "Julian H. Stacey" wri tes: >Peter Jeremy wrote: >> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 03:43:06PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote: >> >PS I have no idea how many people use ctm nowadays. Do we have an count? >> postmaster@freebsd.org should be able to tell you how many people are >> on the various mailing lists. An accurate count of people downloading >> from the FTP sites would take more effort but could probably be derived >> from the FTP server logs. > >Difficult to count: >To avoid under counting, one would need logs from all offical mirrors >(even if we ignore unofficial & behind firwall mirrors). > >To avoid over counting, we'd need to avoid double counting people >like me, that ftp a few but not all deltas from a local mirror each >time the local mail system loses a delta or piece. I also use >different email addresses to ftp, & assume some others do that too. <EVIL> Send out a specially doctored CTM delta which adds a patch which sends back an email </EVIL> -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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