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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]>
Cc: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Page <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL www <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Request for download stats on release
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 22:55:16 -0300 (ADT)
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On Wed, 11 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote:

> Peter Eisentraut <[email protected]> writes:
>> These download counts would be completely random anyway.  Most people get
>> their dose of PostgreSQL via an OS distributor.
>
> Sure, but the download counts just following a new release would give us
> a reading on enthusiastic real users --- ie, people who are interested
> enough to download a new major release as soon as it's available.
>
> However, this is probably moot given the point that we won't get
> cooperation from the larger mirror sites.

Why not add something like what pine does?  when you start up a new 
release of pine, the first time, there is an option to send an email 
letting them count # of users ... its totally optional ...

Maybe have an extension on initdb so that if run from a terminal, it 
prompts the installer for whether they want to send in a simple email 
letting us know its being used ... ?

Or something like that ... something both visible and that defaults to 
'opt-out', not opt-in ...

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Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org)
Email: [email protected]           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ: 7615664

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