Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Mikael Byström
Rick Lecoat said: Well, if you want 100 percent accuracy then you have to poll every single user of Powermail on every single question that comes up for discussion. That is clearly near-impossible, and certainly ludicrously impractical. If even a single PM user's opinions are omitted from the

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Mikael Byström
Rick Lecoat suggested: Which means that we are talking about statistical approximations here, just as most marketing decisions are, and, that being the case, I repeat my notion that this list can serve as a practical cross section of the user base. Is it completely accurate? Of course not. But I

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Tim Lapin (sympatico)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 4/25/2007 10:58 PM, Matthias Schmidt wrote: Am/On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 17:52:35 -0400 schrieb/wrote Winston Weinmann: A user forum does not have that problem, but of course does not push questions out to users. A forum also keeps a more readily

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Rick Lecoat
That's your answer? Oh, Mikael. Or should I call you 'Mr Spock'? ; -) Rick -- G5 2GHz x2 :: 2GB RAM :: 10.4.7 :: PM 5.5.2 :: 3 pane mode -- Original message: Received from Mikael Byström on 26/4/07 at 13:42 Rick Lecoat said: Well, if you want 100 percent accuracy then you have to poll

powermail-discuss Digest #2619 - 04/26/07

2007-04-26 Thread PowerMail discussions
powermail-discuss Digest #2619 - Thursday, April 26, 2007 Re: Applescript not triggering, WAS Attachment link failing by Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: Database corrupt by Mikael Byström [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: bug or feature ? by Mikael Byström [EMAIL

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Mikael Byström
Rick Lecoat said: That's your answer? Oh, Mikael. Or should I call you 'Mr Spock'? ; -) What else could I say? That CTM could, do and probably should lend an ear to this list is obvious. For us on this list to assume it's a practical cross-section of the user base is something else entirely.

Re: the list vs the user base (wasRe: bug or feature ?)

2007-04-26 Thread Mikael Byström
Tim Lapin (sympatico) said this: It is true that a web based forum will never be as fast or as clean in the interface as a text based mailing list but... Forums are only as slow as the load originating from them and the speed of the receiving computer. Yes, but as one reason for me why I am