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- From: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Subject: Re: *BAD* music group reorg will not be honored
- In-Reply-To: stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU's message of 18 Nov 92 00:58:29 GMT
- Message-ID: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov20144504@fuller.intellection.com>
- Sender: emcguire@intellection.com (Ed McGuire)
- Organization: Intellection, Inc.
- References: <EMCGUIRE.92Nov15180944@fuller.intellection.com>
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 20:45:04 GMT
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- In article <1ec4flINNmqk@talon.UCS.ORST.EDU> stanley@skyking.OCE.ORST.EDU (John Stanley) writes:
-
- A straw poll will be meaningless, because it will suffer from
- exactly the same self-selection mechanism that the original vote
- did. Those who care will reply to the straw poll, those who don't,
- won't.
-
- By that argument, all votes are meaningless, because all votes "suffer
- from" a "self-selection mechanism."
-
- The respondents to the poll were the people of the *.synth readership
- who wanted to provide input into the process, and the dispute brought
- more people into the process than the vote did. Given the
- circumstances, it's a good bet that those who did not respond don't
- care about the outcome.
-
- We should try to honor the preference of the *.synth readership, and
- the straw poll gave us a pretty good idea of what they prefer.
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