[boost] Re: Does anyone care about Boost?

From: tom.lighthouse_at_[hidden]
Date: 1999-09-26 14:35:58

Now is the time to do the impossible: ask a dumb question:
What is Boost?
I have been skimming the email and have gotten an idea of what concerns
the community.
It would be helpful if I understood the premise.

Thank you,
Tom aka Lighthouse

On Sat, 25 Sep 1999 10:54:25 -0400 Beman Dawes <beman_at_[hidden]> writes:
>Does anyone care about Boost?  Here are some numbers:
>
>There are 107 people signed up on the mailing list, and that number
>continues to grow slowly
>
>I get site access statistics every week.  It looks like about 300
>people access the web site per week, and about 50 of them download
>the libraries.  These numbers also are slowly growing.  (Of course
>"slowly" is a relative term; the actual yearly growth rate is way
>over 100%.)
>
>So for those of you helping to build Boost, thanks!  It does look
>like people care.
>
>--Beman
>
>PS:  Here is one week's "Networks Accessing" report:
>
>(many unknown)			   
>Australia			   
>Austria			  
>Belgium			  
>Canada			  
>Croatia			  
>Denmark			  
>Finland			  
>France			  
>Germany			  
>Hungary			  
>India			  
>Italy			  
>Japan			  
>Netherlands		  
>New Zealand		  
>Norway			  
>Peru			  
>Russian Federation
>South Africa	
>Sweden			  
>Switzerland		  
>Taiwan			  
>Trinidad and Tobago
>United Kingdom	
>United States	
>Uruguay			  
>Venezuela		
>alta-vista.net	
>amazon.com		
>angeles.com		  
>aol.com			  
>aracnet.com		  
>att.com			  
>att.net			  
>baltimore.com	
>bconnected.net	
>bear.com		
>bgsu.edu		
>bora.net		
>buffnet.net		  
>businessobjects.com
>callnetuk.com	
>calpoly.edu		  
>cancom.net		
>cmcsg.com		
>compaq.com		
>computasoft.com	
>contrib.net		  
>coqui.net		
>crystalpoint.com
>csuohio.edu		  
>cw.net			  
>dec.com			  
>delanotech.com	
>delcam.com		
>delta-air.com	
>deuba.com		
>discreet.com	
>dragonsys.com	
>eds.com			  
>eircom.net		
>electroglas.com	
>esva.net		
>etn.com			  
>flatiron.com	
>gallium.com		  
>gatech.edu		
>globalserve.net	
>golfagent.com	
>grayson.com		  
>grid.net		
>harvard.edu		  
>home.com		
>hp.com			  
>ibm.com			  
>ibm.net			  
>idirect.com		  
>impathnetworks.com
>informaxinc.org
>infoseek.com   
>inktomisearch.com          
>instinctive.com            
>interworld.com             
>itasoftware.com            
>ja.net                     
>jcc.com                    
>kalisto.com                
>knowledgetrack.com         
>llnl.gov                   
>lucent.com                 
>lycos.com                  
>mediaone.net               
>mentorg.com                
>metawire.com               
>metechnology.com           
>microsoft.com              
>mindspring.com     
>msstate.edu            
>mutationlabs.com           
>nasa.gov                   
>natinst.com                
>nationalcachecard.com  
>nationwideisp.net      
>navinet.net            
>netgate.net                
>netmind.com            
>newsham.com            
>newtonlabs.com         
>nmt.edu                    
>nokia.com                  
>nortel.com                 
>northernlight.com          
>oleane.com                 
>op.net                 
>oracle.com             
>pcigeomatics.com       
>philips.com            
>psi.net                
>psu.edu                    
>pyramid.net            
>raydn.com              
>rbd.com                    
>redsnapper.net         
>ricochet.net           
>ridgeway-sys.com       
>rosprint.net           
>rr.com                     
>sabre.net              
>saic.com           
>sierra.com                 
>signtech.com               
>simflex.com                
>sitaaps.org            
>sky.net                
>smig.net               
>solidum.com            
>splitrock.net          
>srs.com                
>synopsys.com               
>t-dialin.net           
>tds.net                
>techno-link.com        
>telapex.com                
>tibco.com              
>tripwiresecurity.com       
>ubs.com                
>uci.edu                
>umn.edu                
>uswest.net                 
>utexas.edu             
>uu.net                     
>uvi.edu                
>viaccess.net               
>wcom.net                   
>wish.net                   
>wsu.edu                    
>x-soft.com         
>--end--
>
>
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