Subject: RE: XSL intent survey From: Ed Nixon <ed.nixon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 29 Nov 1998 10:31:17 -0500 |
Oren - I wouldn't be too discouraged unless 8.75% represented the proportion of 'active' participants on the list. Based on my very subjective estimate (as a viewer), there are likely not more than 35 - 50 who ever post anything and, of that, a core of perhaps 5 - 10 who get involved regularly. Perhaps rather than thinking, 'have no opinion', 'don't know what to think' would be a more accurate typification of the larger part. I don't mind admitting that as my view. I've come to the list to try to educate myself about this stuff. In that regard, the list is being successful. I don't feel competent, however, to use other's band width for expressing or reinforcing my own ignorance. On another level, it may be that those with a professional stake -- and that seems to be a very wide spectrum of interests -- in what is happening in W3C just want them to get on with it and get it finished...in a way that all of the money bags consortium members find mutually agreeable. In a way that allows for some consensus, rather than replicating or promulgating their marketing department/MBA-style wet dreams of success. Obviously this has led to fragmentation and confusion of many aspects of HTML. To everyone's detriment. This, too, is my opinion (and that's *all* it is.) Regards and thanks (if no one else has bothered) for taking this on and following through. ...edN -----Original Message----- From: Oren Ben-Kiki [SMTP:oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, November 29, 1998 3:57 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XSL intent survey -----Original Message----- The XSL-List Owner <xsl-list-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >At 26 Nov 1998 18:15 +0200, Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > > I recieved 26 full votes (including mine :-). I don't know whether this is > > good or bad. Can anyone tell me how many subscribers there are to this > > mailing list? > >XSL-List: 489 >XSL-List Digest: 208 >Total: 697 I guess a 13-to-1 majority in favor of something is less impressive when only 8.75% of the subscribers bother to vote. More then nine out of ten subscribers either don't care about the issue or don't have an opinion... I find either alternative pretty dicouraging. I'll forward the survey results as they stand anyway - together with this dismal figure - to the W3 organization. Oren. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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