--- "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:
> 
> Hubert Feyrer
> <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de> writes:
> >  * On the NetBSD mailing lists, there are 8715
> different addresses
> >    subscribed
> 
> Keep in mind that the overwhelming bulk of users
> never join a mailing
> list. I am a daily user of emacs, for instance, and
> I'm not on any
> emacs mailing lists. Ditto for X, TeX, and dozens of
> other tools I
> have. I am guessing the number of people that join a
> list is a
> miniscule fraction of total users for almost any
> piece of software.

And there's probably people that join it and don't use
NetBSD either. Probably fewer than the other way
around, but with that we still get a pretty good idea
of how many people are intimately involved with it on
a daily basis. 

Andy

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