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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:46:18 -0400
From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
To: DRUMS WG Chair <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>
Cc: Detailed Revision/Update of Message Standards <drums@cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: Straw Poll results
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DRUMS WG Chair <Chris.Newman@innosoft.com>:
> Here are the results of the straw poll, for your information only.  I
> don't think it would be productive to discuss how to proceed based solely
> on these results.  We need more of the technical details behind the 
> proposals before I'm comfortable attempting to estimate rough concensus.
> 
> 
> Reply Any Support:       4
> Reply Any Object:        6
> Reply Personal Support: 17
> Reply Personal Object:   2
> Reply Group Support:     1
> Reply Group Object:     11
> Other:                   0
> Abstain:                 3

I dunno.  This looks pretty lopsided for Reply-Personal to me.  If you
score in the obvious way, Reply-Personal is 17 points ahead of Reply-Any
and 28 points of Reply-Group.  And it's the only proposal with more supports
than objects.  Even if all the abstains came down against it, that could not
change.

In re technical details, want me to repost my draft Reply-Personal
proposal?  Several of the 17 supporters in this category liked it, and
I didn't see any competing versions of Reply-Personal get more than
their authors' support.
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		<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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