From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 12:01:56 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 14FB616A4CE for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:01:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from moutvdomng.kundenserver.de (moutvdom.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A32A43D1F for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 12:01:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from liamfoy@sepulcrum.org) Received: from [212.227.126.221] (helo=mrvdomng.kundenserver.de) by moutvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AkqS8-0002R7-00; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:01:52 +0100 Received: from [217.43.129.115] (helo=sepulcrum.org) by mrvdomng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1AkqS7-0006N6-00; Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:01:51 +0100 Message-ID: <401420AE.9060702@sepulcrum.org> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 20:01:50 +0000 From: Liam Foy User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.6b) Gecko/20040117 Thunderbird/0.4 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kris Kennaway References: <4013EA9D.6040808@cream.org> <20040125134151.M52260@mail.tacorp.net> <20040125185753.GA12995@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <40141B3D.9070901@cream.org> <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20040125194721.GA28036@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 20:01:56 -0000 Kris Kennaway wrote: >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 >>is growing and mailing list traffic isn't. We have no method for >>estimating the number of installed FreeBSD boxes, but I would have >>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). > > Apart from Netcraft, do you have any links to these sources please? I would love to see some of the statistics. > > >>Perhaps we're just so good and documenting now, that nobody needs to ask >>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 > I strongly agree with what Kris said, the documentation team have done a fantastic job in enabling then to finding quick and simple answers to most newbie questions. -Liam Foy