Vincent
"What do you think?"
I think that is the most honest accounting of a user base I have ever seen.
Most times, people just measure hits or count every account that was ever
created whether it is actively in use or not. I would say your final number
of four new Cactus users a day is probably not far off.
Another interesting statistic is perhaps how many people who download and
use Cactus subscribe to the mailing list. Of those, what is the ratio
between lurkers and posters? Are mailing list subscriptions times some
multiplier, perhaps contingent on the lurker/poster ratio, an appropriate
measure of the user base? I warrant that there is some predictive value
there, especially in terms of active users continuing to use Cactus, which
is perhaps a quite different number than the aggregate number of new Cactus
users per day who may stop using it after awhile.
Tom
