----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Calivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: Fun with statistics ...
> 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.
thanks.
>
> 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.
>
I completely agree with this but I have no way of measuring this
unfortunately ... (also I don't have access to the mailing list information,
such as number of users, ... so I cannot see the progress of subscriptions.
I have to ask the mailing list admin for this information). However, in the
assumptions I took at the end of my post on statistics, I assumed 50% of
users tried to install Cacus somehow and stopped. This could take into
account the persons who installed it, played with it and then stopped using
it (for any reason : no use for it, don't think it is useful, ...).
> Tom
-Vincent
