Subject: Re: It's dead Jim
To: None <rmk@rmkhome.com>
From: Peter Varga <peter.varga@screaminet.com>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 08/21/2002 18:11:17
On Wed, Aug 21, 2002 at 03:47:38PM -0600, Rick Kelly wrote:
> Hubert Feyrer said:
> 
> >That's right, but it's as least _some_ number.
> 
> >To show some progress, the number of users who've joined our lists since I
> >posted the above numnber increased by 25, we're at 8740 now.
> >That's what - 5 new subscribers per day? ~2000 new users a year, not
> >counting in any exponential growth?
> 
> I know a fair number of NetBSD users who never join mailing lists. They
> use google and the NetBSD list archives when they have questions.

... and read, understand and use the code.   This is also very true to 
OpenBSD and FreeBSD users as well.  

> 
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> Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com
>