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In-Reply-To: <199707100059.RAA26396@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at "Jul 9, 97 05:59:52 pm"
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Jonathan M. Bresler writes:
> ******************************
> *     List Sizes             *
> ******************************
>
>    20259 total

Fascinating.  Apart from the obvious double counts, I find the
individual numbers surprising.

>     5734 freebsd-announce
>     1157 freebsd-security

Number 2.  This suggests that many people who are otherwise not
interested in FreeBSD still want to hear about security.  Is there
some threat here?

>      911 freebsd-hackers
>      836 freebsd-isp
>      758 freebsd-current
>      750 freebsd-questions

I had always had the feeling that -hackers was the inner circle, that
the wannabees were in -questions, and that -isp was quite small.  I
suppose there are a lot of lurkers in -isp, which is good, but I'm
disappointed that -questions is (relatively) so small.

>      718 freebsd-stable
>      625 freebsd-hardware
>      608 aic7xxx
>      563 freebsd-security-notifications
>      472 freebsd-bugs
>      432 freebsd-smp
>      416 freebsd-scsi
>      397 freebsd-fs
>      366 freebsd-ports
>      359 freebsd-multimedia
>      347 freebsd-chat
>      328 freebsd-emulation
>      326 freebsd-install
>      286 freebsd-platforms

No!  Please don't port FreeBSD to the 286 platform!

Greg