Less messages to FreeBSD.org lists

[Liam Foy]

Kris Kennaway wrote:

>On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 07:38:37PM +0000, Andrew Boothman wrote:
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>>Agreed, but it would seem surprising to me that FreeBSD's installed base 
>>is growing and mailing list traffic isn't. We have no method for 
>>estimating the number of installed FreeBSD boxes, but I would have 
>>thought that mailing list traffic was quite a good indicator.
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>Statistics are available and have been posted from time to time in the
>past.  CD sales, FTP downloads, website traffic from FreeBSD clients,
>Netcraft webserver counts, etc.  I don't recall any other indications
>of shrinking user base (on the contrary, my memory is that they
>support robust growth).
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Apart from Netcraft, do you have any links to these sources please? I 
would love
to see some of the statistics.

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>>Perhaps we're just so good and documenting now, that nobody needs to ask 
>>a question? ;)
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>Don't underestimate that possibility.  A hell of a lot of work has
>gone into improving the documentation, and a lot of mailing list
>traffic is in the category of newbie questions that are answered in
>the documentation.
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>Kris
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I strongly agree with what Kris said, the documentation team have done
a fantastic job in enabling then to finding quick and simple answers to
most newbie questions.

-Liam Foy