ATTN SELF-STYLED LIST POLICE (was RE: Mr. Day)

[A. Rick Anderson]

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


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