From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Brad Collins Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How Many Emacs Users? Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:42:00 +0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <878yiw8aox.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> <7illmw3pfb.fsf@neoscale.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1077417992 6334 80.91.224.253 (22 Feb 2004 02:46:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 02:46:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 22 03:46:17 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AujdJ-0001jc-00 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 03:46:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Aujc9-0000HC-Az for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Aujbe-0000Ec-Kz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:44:34 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1Aujb8-0007sG-DV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:44:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.146.237.179] (helo=bufferz3.loxinfo.co.th) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Aujb7-0007q1-SH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Feb 2004 21:44:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mav2.loxinfo.co.th (mav2.loxinfo.co.th [203.146.237.162]) by bufferz3.loxinfo.co.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3F1103002 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:43:58 +0700 (ICT) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mav2.loxinfo.co.th (Postfix) with SMTP id 3110FC39FC for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:43:58 +0700 (ICT) Original-Received: from mailz1.loxinfo.co.th (mailz1.loxinfo.co.th [203.146.237.129]) by mav2.loxinfo.co.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2343AC39F4 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:43:58 +0700 (ICT) Original-Received: from cscoms.com (mail.cscoms.com [203.146.30.108]) by mailz1.loxinfo.co.th (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EF143BE54 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:43:56 +0700 (ICT) Original-Received: from KAME.cscoms.com ([203.170.158.95]) by cscoms.com (8.12.8p2/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i1M2horO026361 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2004 09:43:55 +0700 (GMT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs In-Reply-To: <7illmw3pfb.fsf@neoscale.com> (Kin Cho's message of "21 Feb 2004 16:53:28 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:17061 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:17061 > Between 2 and 4 million I'd say. Thanks for the replys -- back channeled as well... This is not a life or death thing. And it's obvious there is no way of determining how many people who use any flavour of Unix or Gnu/Linux could be using, so I think it would be better to use a simular approach that is used by congressional offices and say that for every person subscribed to a Emacs mailing list there are X number users who aren't. It's a bit like Cicadas. You sure as hell know they are there, making that infernal racket, and you'd think bugs that size would not be terribly adept at hiding, but finding the damn things is more trouble than its worth. b/ -- Brad Collins Chenla Labs Bangkok, Thailand