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To: Sweth Chandramouli <sweth@astaroth.nit.gwu.edu>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: o'reilly zsh book?
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From: Karsten Thygesen <karthy@kom.auc.dk>
Date: 27 Jan 1999 10:26:25 +0100
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>>>>> "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