[Lust] Re: Lust Digest, Vol 53, Issue 1

[Shaun Wallin]

Apparently up to 97600 Linux users use the BBC Website!

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/06/035218&from=rss

The BBC decided to recheck their access logs.



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> > Subject: [Lust] Do Linux users access the BBC websites ?
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> > Ashley Highfield, BBC head of technology, claims that only 400 to 600
> users are
> > Linux users.
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> > There's an online 'petition' to help prove him wrong.
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> > http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/linuxbbc?e
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> Subject: [Lust] Re: Do Linux users access the BBC websites ? (Tim
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> > It would be good to provide references to this claim. Without such
> > validating references, I think these e-petitions can be viral scams.
> > Any chance of posting them?
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> Well, Ashley Highfield has selected reverse gear and is busy
> pushing the throttle pedal through the wilton.
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> http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2007/11/linux_figures_1.html
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> Although his argument now is that the BBC has only to cater for
> the majority of users...
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