Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 21114
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4/26    Does the average soda user bother even reading the public motd?
        \_ you mean motd.public?  or the stuff in motd.official?
           \_ either one.  I bet most just skip it.
              \_ "soda user".. there are > 2k "soda users".. 90% of them never
                 log on... so you're right.  I'd say a decent chunk of the
                 rest read this.
                \_ soda [63] last | awk '{ print $1 }' | sort -u | wc -l
                     638
                   (since April 14th)  -tom
                   \_ unless I'm mistaken that includes POP (and IMAP?) users
                      I don't consider that "logging in" --dbushong
                        \_ you're mistaken.  That includes only tty-based
                           logins.  -tom
                      \_ But then, you don't have to log in to read the motd.
                         I read it via "finger motd@soda" far more often than
                         I log in to soda (and you can also read it at
                         http://www.csua.berkeley.edu/motd also without
                         logging in to soda).
           \_ Then they are missing out. The motd is the best thing about
              soda.
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