Linux Counter Drops 90.000 Users

hta writes "Over the 7 years that the Linux Counter has been operative, a lot of people have registered who can no longer be verified. We do not want to publish false data to the world. So we have to remove the data when it is too old, and have decided to give two grace periods." See below for more information - but go out and get counted!

• Two years for entries with an email that might be valid
• One year for entries without a valid email entry

More technical details are available from the Counter.

Since there has not been any routine for this before, there is a backlog of almost 100.000 entries.
We have decided to pull the whole backlog at once on November 1.
After this date, the aged-out entries will not be included in the Linux Counter user count, and will not receive email notifications from the counter.

If you registered with the Linux Counter long ago, go over there and log in in order to make sure your entry stays counted."

Comments

Dang ./ so good that even google's mirror dont wrk

[Bender Unit 22]

google mirror
Now this is a proper ./ effect.

ok, it works after a while, but I guess you cant register yourself since their scripts still are overloaded ..

hmm just got a flashback..."Amiga forever, forever.. ever ver.. er.. r." :-)

Re:The Ethics of Slashdot

[hta]

I think being slashdotted is fun. (twisted sense of humor :-)
The counter has been slashdotted twice before, and broke down; this time, it has 10x the processing power and 30x the disk space compared to then. But it seems that the slashdot community has expanded by a similar factor in the meantime - the counter is running at a load of 16, but it is STAYING UP.
Watching, and enjoying.