On Tuesday 17 March 2009 21:29:42 Dinesh Shah (દિનેશ શાહ/दिनेश शाह) wrote: > > what was the total number of votes polled? I am sure it will be a > > ridiculously low number. > > How does it mater? We can only go by the number of people who ACTUALLY > BOTHERED TO VOTE.
we once had a poll on the chennai list on the issue of where reply-to should point. The list admin declared that he would accept the result as long as 5% of the list members voted - that came to 75 members. A poll app was set up, and after much publicity and cajoling, we got 68 votes, which was accepted by the admin. The voting was by secret ballot and only members of the list were allowed to vote - one vote per person and no option to change the vote. The result was 60 for and 8 against. This kind of thing makes sense when there is a serious issue involved. -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
