Re: [fab] Re: splash page + tracking image example

[Chris Ricker <kaboom oobleck net>]

On Thu, 5 Oct 2006, Max Spevack wrote:

> > Yes, counting IP addresses will give you a metric.  I just don't think that
> > metric is good for much because you still don't know how many machines
> > really have Fedora installed.  Is it better than nothing?  I don't know.
> 
> It gets you a pile of data, which can be analyzed and from which value can be
> extracted.
> 
> It's certainly better than having *no data*.

Is wrong data really any better than no data? We already have wrong data 
("somewhere between 10 thousand and 10 million, we think") if that's all 
you're wanting. And we know the proposed counting method (ip-based web 
hit) will be wrong data as well....

later,
chris