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From: jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Jamie Andrews)
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Subject: Re: Results of survey on expansion of rec.humor.funny to other networks
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Date: 14 Mar 89 20:22:58 GMT
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In article <2914@looking.UUCP> funny-request@looking.UUCP writes:
>After about 4 days of voting, here are the results:
>	Yes:	Four hundred and twenty
>	No:	Twenty-eight
>I don't know if I've ever seen a usenet vote or survey this positive before.

     Oh come on, Brad.  Please admit that most of these votes
came from the rec.humor.funny readership, which consists mostly
of people that fell out on your side after the polarization of
the net about the JEDR debate.

>Sometimes a very vocal, but extremely tiny minority can make people
>think that the respresent popular opinion on some way.

     420 people is a majority of the net?

     Questions like this one should not be decided by opinion
polls of the entire net readership, but by reasoned and fair
debate (ie. not on the net at all!) by people who know a lot
about the consequences of it (ie. not me).  It's too important
for a straw poll, newsgroup-skewed or otherwise.

     I don't really know why I'm posting this, I guess it's just
that I'm getting tired of Brad's getting away with all this on
the strength of his popular support ("yea Brad, we will fight to
the death for your right to send us any jokes we want to read")
over the JEDR thing.  

     Maybe I'm just jealous, or depressed, that Brad's carefully
calculated posting style (simplistic arguments, short sentences,
1000-word vocabulary) can have such an effect.  I dunno.

     Anyway, send in the flames, I'll probably ignore them since
unfortunately I'm caring less and less about the net these days.

>I will now negotiate and sign contracts with Genie and Delphi.

--Jamie.
  jha@lfcs.ed.ac.uk
"Same eyes, same lips, the same lie from your tongue slips"