----- Original Message ----- From: "Rodent of Unusual Size" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brin-L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 8:02 AM Subject: Re: Good Governance
> "J. van Baardwijk" wrote: > > > > This is a gross exaggeration. A handful of people (five? six?) are now > > complaining, while this list has over 300 subscribers. > > But if that handful is the vast majority of those who have > voiced any opinion at all? Is it safe to assume the non-posters > are on the other side? I don't think so. They probably just > don't care. In which case the voices of the ones who *do* > should probably count for a lot. > -- FWIW, I counted only two who considered JDG seriously out of line: Eileen and Jeroen. I counted about 11 who, IMHO, explicitly stated that they didn't. Now JonNRob did state that JDG was way out of line, but that was because he misremembered who posted what...and then he apologized in an extermely gracious manner. JonNRob, I was _very_ impressed with how you handled that. If you throw JDG and Jeroen out of the voting, we have about a 10 to 1 weigh in of opinion. If you accept that someone who posts once every 3 months isn't likely to make this topic their next post, then I'd guess that this is a sampling of about 30-40 pretty active posters. A 25% turnout with a 10-1 ratio is usually considered a landslide. Dan M. Dan M. .
