Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 18:05:32 +0930 (CST)
From: grog@FreeBSD.ORG
To: jmb@freebie.lemis.com.${Domain} (Jonathan M. Bresler)
Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat)
Subject: Re: 20,000+ subscribers to FreeBSD mailinglists
Message-ID: <199707140835.SAA00689@freebie.lemis.com>
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
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