At 05:31 PM Thursday 8/12/99, Russell Nelson wrote:
>Daniluk, Chris writes:
> > I think it is quite a big surprise :) When 80% of the world uses
> Sendmail...
>
>According to Dan's latest survey
>(http://pobox.com/~djb/surveys/smtpsoftware3.txt),
>(which isn't very "latest"), it's now down to 63%.
"There are only lies, damn lies and statistics."
"97% of all statistics are wrong."
I'm not suggesting any motive at all, but we could (but hopefully wont)
spend ages discussing whether those surveys depict a trend, whether they are
in fact comparable, whether "80% of hosts" is the same as "80% of the world"
whether selecting *.net skews that stats in any particular direction or not.
It would, eg, be handy if the followup surveys were reported and whether
there was a trend that indicated increasing or decreasing change. Clearly
with just two sample points no such conclusion can be drawn.
"There are only two types of people in this world, those who believe there
are two types of people in this world and those who don't".
Ooops. Sorry, thread collision.
Mark.
