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[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <200303291031.h2TAUw378946 at flip.jhs.private>, "Julian H. Stacey" wri
tes:
>Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 03:43:06PM +1000, Stephen McKay wrote:
>> >PS I have no idea how many people use ctm nowadays.  Do we have an count?
>> postmaster at freebsd.org should be able to tell you how many people are
>> on the various mailing lists.  An accurate count of people downloading
>> from the FTP sites would take more effort but could probably be derived
>> from the FTP server logs.
>
>Difficult to count:
>To avoid under counting, one would need logs from all offical mirrors
>(even if we ignore unofficial & behind firwall mirrors).
>
>To avoid over counting, we'd need to avoid double counting people
>like me, that ftp a few but not all deltas from a local mirror each
>time the local mail system loses a delta or piece. I also use
>different email addresses to ftp, & assume some others do that too.

<EVIL>
Send out a specially doctored CTM delta which adds a patch which
sends back an email
</EVIL>

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