From owner-freebsd-multimedia Sun Sep 19 19:24:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from proxy2.ba.best.com (proxy2.ba.best.com [206.184.139.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5136514C39 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:24:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from finlayson@live.com) Received: from mg130-199.ricochet.net (mg130-199.ricochet.net [204.179.130.199]) by proxy2.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.out) with SMTP id TAA27849 for ; Sun, 19 Sep 1999 19:24:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.16.19990919072317.0b1f14e0@shell7.ba.best.com> X-Sender: rsf@shell7.ba.best.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (16) Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 07:23:17 To: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG From: Ross Finlayson Subject: RE: liveCaster: estimated audience stats... In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:12 AM 9/20/99 +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >> Am I correct in assuming that since its multicast, getting stats on number >> of listeners is impossible? *raised eyebrow* > >Yup. >Probably why it hasn't taken off.. "Hmm.. well its cheaper on bandwidth, but >none of our advertisers like it because they don't know how many people their >stuff is getting too" Yes, you're probably right. That must be why radio and television never amounted to anything either. Ross. ps., for the sarcasm-impaired: :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message