On Thu, 2004-12-09 at 11:56 -0500, A. Rick Anderson wrote: > John Summerfield wrote: > > On Wednesday 08 December 2004 19:10, A. Rick Anderson wrote: > > > > > In other words 1%. For the > > > sake of debate, let's assume that every response from a Red Hat employee > > > is worth 10 times that of every other responder on the list. > > > > > How do you tustify that unscientific assumption? Stats please! > I can't. I was conceding the point simply to move beyond that > argument as a meaningful point of discussion. If you don't concede > the point, then the argument that all email should be reduced to the > text only mode simply to support the 3/5 Red Hat employees who utilize > Mutt or text only email clients as their reader becomes even more > absurd. Without that previous assumption, the number of responses > from Red Hat employees who use Mutt becomes statistically > insignificant ... and there is no rational support for the previous > demand that every newbie, who has the audacity to use an HTML browser, > needs to be severely chastised for wasting precious bandwidth. > > 79 messages out of over 6,000 a month. Do the math and draw your own > conclusions about how the level of contribution that the folks with > text-only browsers from Red Hat are making and how much effort > everyone else should expend in order to facilitate the vital responses > and assistance that they are providing. > > The point of the concession was simply to point out that either those > 79 messages were absolutely vital, and nobody else could have provide > the *quality* of response that they did, or to the raise the question > of why there was any concern for tiny segment of the mailing list who > contributed barely of the traffic 1% of the traffic. > > Not trying to say who was right or wrong. Just doing the math. > -- > A. Rick Anderson I don't think it's a matter of numbers or right and wrong. It's more of a standard for the list. Post in plain text Post your reply at the bottom You can choose how you want to post, it's just a few people take it upon themselves to act as police for the list. But that's just the way it goes, you can always read it or delete it. Tim...
