From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu Jul 29 12:13: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from fed-ef1.frb.gov (fed.frb.gov [132.200.32.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5054155DD for ; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 12:12:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org) Received: by fed-ef1.frb.gov; id PAA21287; Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:12:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from m1pmdf.frb.gov(192.168.3.38) by fed.frb.gov via smap (V4.2) id xma021040; Thu, 29 Jul 99 15:12:12 -0400 Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:11:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Seth Subject: Re: Slashdot poll In-reply-to: To: Adrian Filipi-Martin Cc: "Eric A. Griff" , advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If someone wants to write a perl script that will stuff the ballot box, I'd be happy to run it :) SB On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Adrian Filipi-Martin wrote: > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Eric A. Griff wrote: > > > This is a more specific link, and *BSD has moved up above macs, but still > > only 4% =( > > I'm willing to bet that you'd get 4% for linux if the poll was on > daemonnews, freebsdrocks, freebsdzine, etc. > > This is simply and example of why self-selection should never be > allowed for poll participation if you want any accuracry at all. It means > less than nothing. It's misleading. > > Adrian > -- > [ adrian@ubergeeks.com -- Ubergeeks Consulting -- http://www.ubergeeks.com/ ] > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message