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Xavier Neys posted <436668AC.4070300@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Mon, 31 Oct 2005 19:55:40 +0100: |
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> Number of users subscribed to gentoo-announce: 7,988 |
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> Total number of GETs on our home page and news feed in a *single day*: 75,302 |
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> from 19,240 different IPs (on Sunday 2005-10-30). |
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I read announce very regularly (checking it several times a day, most |
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days), but wouldn't show up in your announce stats. Why? Because I |
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subscribe to gmane.org's gmane.linux.gentoo.announce newsgroup. |
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When I subscribe to writable lists such as this one thru gmane, I also |
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subscribe to the main Gentoo list (and then put it on vacation or digest |
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mode so it's not spamming me all the time with stuff I already get thru |
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gmane). With lists that will be read-only, such as announce, in my case, |
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there's no need to subscribe to the Gentoo version, as I won't be posting |
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anything to gmane that has to be authorized with Gentoo to be able to |
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relay thru to the list. |
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Also note lwn.net. It carries GWN and all the GLSAs. I'm guessing they |
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track the GLSAs thru the announce list, tho I don't know that for sure. |
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If so, and the announce list starts carrying other stuff, it'll get posted |
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to LWN pretty quickly, as well. LWN's both valuable enough to me that I |
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pay real money to subscribe, and the way I learned enough about Gentoo to |
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check it out. It's also a decently recognized authority in the Linux |
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community. However, none of its hits will be tracked by Gentoo. Still, |
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if stuff is posted to the announce list, it'll quite likely be covered on |
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LWN as well. |
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Bottom line, then, announce has far more readers than the ones Gentoo |
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tracks thru its subscription list. A wild guess, as it'd take some work |
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to make it anything more than that, would put it on par with the |
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gentoo.org front page. It may actually get more circulation than the |
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front page. (That said, as others have posted, if more news gets posted |
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to the front page, those unique IP counts will probably go up accordingly. |
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LWN and others could easily grab from there, as well.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in |
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http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html |
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