From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 9 18:08:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA08095 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:08:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA08029 for ; Fri, 9 Oct 1998 18:08:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA09633; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:37:56 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA02190; Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:37:52 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19981010103752.I3369@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 10 Oct 1998 10:37:52 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Wes Peters , Sue Blake Cc: Nicholas Charles Brawn , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: age check :) References: <19981009200951.60385@welearn.com.au> <361E5F84.14E9660@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <361E5F84.14E9660@softweyr.com>; from Wes Peters on Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 01:09:56PM -0600 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 X-Mutt-References: <361E5F84.14E9660@softweyr.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Friday, 9 October 1998 at 13:09:56 -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > Sue Blake wrote: >> >> On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:46:24PM +1000, Nicholas Charles Brawn wrote: >> >>> As a quick check, how many people here are between the ages of 16-20, >>> 20-25, or 25+? >> >> What you're asking is, out of freebsd-chat readers (a very small group >> of FreeBSD users, possibly older than on our other lists but not >> necessarily), what are the ages of those list members who are both >> willing to reveal their ages and also think it is worth answering. > > That's a pretty interesting grouping, too. 25+ covers a LOT of age, and > I for one cannot determine why we would ALL get lumped together. (Oops, > let out what category I'm in there, huh?) This category not only covers > me, my siblings and spouse, but also my parents, and all those people > Willard Scott talks about in the morning. You're assuming ALL OF US have > the same level of interest in your game? You're most decidedly wrong. Come, come, he's just viewing things from his perspective. Agreed, 25+ is not a useful category. I'm old enough to remember the last time somebody asked this question (about 2 years ago). At that time, we discovered that there were a surprising number of over 40s and over 50s in the FreeBSD team. I haven't seen any admit to this kind of age so far this time round. In fact, the ones who answered did fit quite well into Nicholas Charles's categories. If you want to be serious, though, 1. Wait until 3.0 is out of the door. A lot of the key players in FreeBSD read -chat, but they're too busy right now. 2. Take categories in a maximum of 10 year increments, or just plain ask "(int) how_old_are_you ()". Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message