on Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 03:26:37AM +0200, ptwright@gmx.net (ptwright@gmx.net) wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2003 at 00:31:46 +0100, Hugh wrote:
>
> >you can say number of users >= 31880 unless people subscribe to
> >debian-announce twice.
> >
> >not sure how you would calculate the actual number of unique subscribed
> >addresses unless you were a listmaster.
> >
>
> thanks.
>
> I'm sort of hoping the listmaster will see this.
>
> Unique subscribed addresses is probably the best way to estimate the number.
>
> I'm also wondering how this number compares with the number of unique IP
> addresses that have downloaded the install CDs.
>
> I'm not sure that can be gathered accurately because of the mirrors.
Bingo. It's a right proper conundrum.
Peace.
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