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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading
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Andrew Suffield |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading |
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Sun, 3 Oct 2004 01:46:37 +0100 |
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On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:29:40PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 02, 2004 at 05:18:48PM -0700, Thomas Lord wrote:
> > > As a practical matter, the current arrangement (subscriber only) seems
> > > to work well. At least, in the N years that arrangement has been in
> > > place, the actual complaints have been few and minor.
>
> > This is a classic form of a sample with a built-in bias. Your sample
> > excludes most complaints, because they're the people who have been
> > filtered out. The actual number of complaints that would exist in a
> > population test is almost impossible to determine.
>
> Some people (very few, but some) have taken the 5m or so to figure out
> to complain or question via my email address when the list address
> fails.
>
> Of those who would not bother to do even that much: do you think we
> are missing much?
I don't have the faintest idea, and I don't believe there is any
practical way to find out; at best you can guess. I can come up with
plenty of anecdotal, hearsay, or circumstancial evidence to support
either possibility.
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