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.


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