On 04/12/02 10:28:01 PM, Bryant Luk wrote:
> Not to sound too disgruntled since I personally don't
> care too much, but shouldn't the poll just be "Yes",
> "No", or "I don't care". I mean it's a tough issue
> and you're dividing the lines.
>
My understanding from the list discussion is that people have somewhat
different reasons and degrees for saying no.
> You're also being very suggestive in your reasoning.
> What about the people who don't care about RMS but
> care about GNU the name? What about those that think
> that SIGLinux should just remain the same name but
> don't think that RMS is "an ass"? And why does it
That is what the 2 other "no" answers are for.
And it was "silly ass" btw.
> matter that people unsubscribe or not if you change
> the name? Are you suggesting that if more votes are
> for "No, but I wouldn't unsubscribe if you did." would
> mean it more likely that a name change would occur
> because people are too lazy to unsubscribe?
>
It is important to me that people stay subscribed.
Every yes or no choice except the "will unsubscribe" one are counted equally.
> Plus I think a vote count on the mailing list would be
> more appropiate unless you release the weblogs and
> whatnot. Not to say you or anyone else would be
> dishonest but those that do care and whose vote should
> matter would probably post on the mailing list. Web
> polls have a reputation for being inaccurate, full of
> ballot stuffers, and whatnot.
>
I was actually intending to modify the poll to require people who vote to enter
the email address that they subscribed with. Then it would compare to the list
who've voted and who're subscribed. But I couldn't figure out an efficient way
to do this for multiple polls last night. I might do that today.
I could've used the forum's poll feature, but it seems many do not want to
join the forrum.
A vote count on the list would be too much.
> I also don't understand why you're moving discussion
> to a web forum. No one has complained about
> discussing the name change yet unless I missed an
> e-mail or two.
>
I have been told by a few people offlist that I need to move this discussion
off of the list. One of those suggested a poll.
Jeff
> --- Jeff Strunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now that I set up a poll for this topic on our main
> > page
> > www.utacm.org/sig/siglinux
> > we can get around to deciding with a measurable
> > method whether we will bring in
> > RMS in September.
> >
> > Further discussion of the poll should be done at the
> > forum.
> > www.utacm.org/forums/read.php?TID=57
> > I even think you can post anonymously.
> >
> > If you let me make the change, it won't happen until
> > after finals.
> >
> > Jeff
> >
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