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["Bearcat M. Sandor" <Sorcerer AT TheDragonsEdge.com>]

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On Wednesday 05 May 2004 10:02 in an email titled "Re: [SM-Discuss] counting 
users" Eric Sandall wrote:
>Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> elaine from Lunar Linux just stopped by on irc describing how they do
>> monitoring of their userbase. I think it could be useful for us too.
>>
>> <elaine_> holas, q: you guys still interested in inventory-ing your
>> users
>> <alley_cat> heya elaine_
>> <alley_cat> you mean finding out the number of our users?
>> <elaine_> heya ac
>> <elaine_> yep
>> <alley_cat> i think most of us are interested in that
>> <elaine_> ok we have a function in our moonbase download that's been in
>> place for abt a year, it hashes the MAC addr of the primary network
>> i'face and xmits that to a log
>> <elaine_> too many people have dynamic IP's to get any data from IP
>> <alley_cat> yeah
>> <bascule> and in contrast there are three users behind a NAT router in
>> my house
>> <elaine_> what we found was a very few users update weekly or less, the
>> average user only updates moonbase montly so it takes time to get a
>> sense of user counts
>> <elaine_> anyhow the code is in our functions i fyou want to lift it
>> <alley_cat> definitely sounds interesting
>> <ruskie> moonbase???
>> <alley_cat> lunars equivalent of sorcery/grimoire
>> <elaine_> yea sorry I'm too tired today to switch lingo
>> <ruskie> never heard
>> <alley_cat> thanks for the tip elaine_, i'll write a mail to our list
>> about it
>> <elaine_> alley_cat of course there's a server script to gather / log
>> the data, I tried doing it the fancy way and reverted to the simple way
>> <alley_cat> ruskie: http://sourcemage.org/info/about/history.html
>> <elaine_> there was some griping abt 'spyware' but practically if you
>> want to know you gotta gather some info
>> <alley_cat> i think using a hash of the MAC address should be quite safe
>> privacy wise
>> <elaine_> alley_cat grep our functions for 'uniq', i fyou want to use it
>> I'll get you the server script as well
>> <elaine_> alley_cat yes that's what we decided, it's also written to be
>> a bit portable
>
>I don't have a problem with that and it'd be nice to know about how often
> people update their grimoires (so we can have a more reasonable release
> schedule of stable) and how many users (roughly) we have.
>
>-sandalle

I update mine daily, but then again, I'm insane. I'm also jobless, but that's 
why I'm insane.  Of course if I had been sane I wouldstill have a job....


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