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From std-unix-request@uunet.uu.net Thu Sep 13 21:21:56 1990
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From: peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus)
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Subject: Snitches & Activity
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Submitted-by: peter@world.std.com (Peter Salus)
I didn't respond to jsq's poll. Now that the results have been posted,
I'd like to make my position known.
(1) I didn't think the manner of polling was in any way
appropriate. On the one hand, many individuals
concerned with IT standards don't get the news
groups, on the other hand, many members of the
various associations (USENIX, UniForum, IEEE,
EUUG, etc.) don't care about standards reports.
(2) I thought the poll questions and methodology were
slanted and unscientific. The fact (noted in
some comments) that there was no option for
no response/don't care/don't know is part of
this. The regression to the mean in most
responses is evidence of just how badly
designed the poll was.
(3) The paltry number of responses shows that even the
majority of POSIX and X3 attendees didn't care
about the questions.
(4) I like the snitch reports. I don't think that either
John Quarterman or Jeff Haemer does an adequate job
where the postings and the articles in ;login: are
concerned. I would like to see the snitch reports
reduced in size to no more than 4-6 pp. in a quarterly
issue where POSIX is concerned; a page where 1201
is concerned; a page on WG15; etc. I think that if
jsq & jsh are to do a job, it should be to filter
the trash before it hits the printer. Editing is
more than merely spelling and punctuation and cute
asides.
(5) I'd like to see more on the unmentioned ISO bodies:
what's gone on at the recent meetings of JTAP,
for example? [Joint Technical Committee on
Application Portability]. They met in Copenhagen
in February and should be meeting about now in Ottawa.
I think I need yet another newsletter about as much as I
need another of Dave Yost's wooden nickles.
--
The difference between practice and theory in practice is always
greater than the difference between practice and theory in theory.
Volume-Number: Volume 21, Number 106