From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 11:47:26 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBC2016A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:47:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (adsl-67-119-53-122.dsl.lsan03.pacbell.net [67.119.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D989C43D2D for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:47:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7FC6966DF2; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:47:21 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 11:47:21 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Andrew Boothman Message-ID: <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <4013EA9D.6040808@cream.org> <20040125134151.M52260@mail.tacorp.net> <20040125185753.GA12995@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <40141B3D.9070901@cream.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J/dobhs11T7y2rNN" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40141B3D.9070901@cream.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 19:47:27 -0000 --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:38:37PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Agreed, but it would seem surprising to me that FreeBSD's installed base= =20 > is growing and mailing list traffic isn't. We have no method for=20 > estimating the number of installed FreeBSD boxes, but I would have=20 > thought that mailing list traffic was quite a good indicator. Statistics are available and have been posted from time to time in the past. CD sales, FTP downloads, website traffic from FreeBSD clients, Netcraft webserver counts, etc. I don't recall any other indications of shrinking user base (on the contrary, my memory is that they support robust growth). > Perhaps we're just so good and documenting now, that nobody needs to ask= =20 > a question? ;) Don't underestimate that possibility. A hell of a lot of work has gone into improving the documentation, and a lot of mailing list traffic is in the category of newbie questions that are answered in the documentation. Kris --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFB1JWry0BWjoQKURAr+GAJ4/aLtVsf3bHUa1nTIii7gN60T5BQCePtaU BRBh6q/xcexDorSyU+NWwAw= =NBtp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J/dobhs11T7y2rNN--