From: Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk>
To: Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: o'reilly zsh book?
Date: 27 Jan 1999 10:26:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yd8btjlhxry.fsf@yugo.kom.auc.dk> (raw)
>>>>> "Sweth" == Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu> writes:
Sweth> that would probably be the hardest selling point. now that
Sweth> zsh is being included in most of the linux distributions, we
Sweth> can't even do something like try to get a count of total number
Sweth> of downloads from all of the mirror sites. does anyone know
Sweth> how other free software packages get estimates of their user
Sweth> base? (for that matter, how many people are on the zsh lists?
Sweth> i think we could assume that anyone on one of the lists is a
Sweth> user.)
There is around 700 members of the zsh mailing lists. A few of them is
gateways to sublists, but the number is quite accurate.
Karsten
next reply other threads:[~1999-01-27 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-01-27 9:26 Karsten Thygesen [this message]
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1999-01-26 12:53 Bruce Stephens
1999-01-26 12:48 Duncan Sinclair
1999-01-26 10:44 Chavdar Ivanov
1999-01-26 10:40 Thomas Koehler
1999-01-26 10:33 Bruce Stephens
1999-01-26 10:26 Bruce Stephens
1999-01-26 9:27 Timothy Writer
1999-01-26 9:07 Peter Stephenson
1999-01-26 1:36 Oliver Kiddle
1999-01-25 18:11 Sweth Chandramouli
1999-01-25 17:59 Matt Armstrong
1999-01-25 17:58 Bruce Stephens
1999-01-25 17:52 Sweth Chandramouli
1999-01-25 17:32 Bart Schaefer
1999-01-25 17:06 Bruce Stephens
1999-01-25 16:48 Sweth Chandramouli
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