Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Presently the number of installations reported to popcon is about the >> same as the number of subscriptions to debian-security-announce, but I >> am sure there are many users of debian who don't read d-s-a and many >> users, who have several -maybe hundreds- of installations and subscribe >> only once! :-) > > I don't believe it's a useful metric: The two most popular security > mailing lists (Bugtraq and full-disclosure) are subscribed to d-s-a > and there are plenty of other multiplicators (CERTs, internal mailing > lists, web sites). Plus, many people install security updates blindly.
My point was not to say that the number of subscribers to d-s-a is a good metric for installed systems. I agree that the number of people reading d-s-a is higher than that and the number of people using debian is much higher still. My point was, that popcon is not a good metric for the number of installed systems, since it reports about the same number of systems that we agree on being way too low. Cheers, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]