From 3075448eb94005148574b812d7a46ae45c637555 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 18:14:49 +0000 Subject: We show the subscriotiuon count. svn path=/trunk/; revision=2162 --- indexgen.sh | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/indexgen.sh b/indexgen.sh index 1bb2f257..75573959 100755 --- a/indexgen.sh +++ b/indexgen.sh @@ -7,6 +7,9 @@ goldname="4.6.0" version=`sed -n index.html < @@ -164,13 +167,14 @@ S.u.S.e. Linux distributions include it. A customized version is used at Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link. Several large ISPs are known to recommend it to Unix-using SLIP and PPP customers.

-Over seven hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list. -While it's hard to count the users of open-source software, we can -estimate based on (a) population figures at the WELL and other known -fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP customer base, -and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. These -estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users number well into the tens -of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.

+Over seven hundred people have participated on the fetchmail beta list +(at time of current release there were $subscribers on the friends and +announce lists). While it's hard to count the users of open-source +software, we can estimate based on (a) population figures at the WELL +and other known fetchmail sites, (b) the size of the Linux-using ISP +customer base, and (c) the volume of fetchmail-related talk on USENET. +These estimates suggest that daily fetchmail users number well into +the tens of thousands, and possibly over a hundred thousand.

The fetchmail paper:

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