Comment 4 for bug 37425

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Björn Tillenius (bjornt) wrote : Re: [Bug 37425] Re: Prevent duplicates by suggesting products/packages holding targets of many other duplicates

On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:27:55AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> + Stuart Bishop reported on 2006-09-04 that of the 45382 bugs filed in
> + only one place, 7134 -- or 15.7% -- were duplicates of bugs that were
> + filed in one different place. So helping the reporter find the
> + appropriate product or package to begin with could save time for, on
> + average, at least one out of every seven bugs.

These numbers don't seem correct to me. From reading Stuart's email,
7134 of the 45382 bugs were duplicates in general. Only 145 were
duplicates filed in a different place.