Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

From: Brian Nelson (pyro_at_debian.org)
Date: 04/20/05

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    Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 11:38:40 -0700
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    On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
    > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
    > > Very few responses for an universe as big as debian-user, I think.
    > > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png
    >
    > Thanks for that!
    >
    > For the non-graphical, http://lists.debian.org/stats/ claims 2598
    > subscribers. So 28 responses is 1.08%, which would be a very low
    > response rate for a postal survey.

    However:

    $ grep '^From: ' debian-users | sort | uniq -d | wc -l
    270

    Which means over the past two weeks (I expire mail over 2 weeks old),
    there are only 270 people who posted more than once to debian-user. So,
    you could say of those 2598 subscribers, only 270 have been "active" the
    past two weeks.

    I was still disappointed by the turnout. I had only 16 responses after
    3 days, and only got more by sending another mail urging people to
    respond. 

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