brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) (03/12/89)
As you know, earlier this week I announced an experiment I am undertaking concerning the expansion of rec.humor.funny to commercial networks. The full text of that announcement can be found in rec.humor.funny. After about 4 days of voting, here are the results: Yes: Four hundred and twenty No: Twenty-eight (About 5 people sent in responses that my awk program didn't like. About 70 people responded to looking!funny rather than fsurvey -- their software must ignore the Reply-to: line. About 4 responses were duplicates, but with this margin, I hope you'll forgive me for not taking the time to weed them out. My software was smart enough to weed out the people who put "survey yes" in 100 times or "survey no" twice. I don't know if I've ever seen a usenet vote or survey this positive before. Especially not 400 yes votes in 3 days. Further responses will not count. (Now that I have revealed the result, it would reduce the validity of the survey.) Sometimes a very vocal, but extremely tiny minority can make people think that the respresent popular opinion on some way. I am pleased to present overwhelming evidence that this is not the case. It's just standard net flamage, it seems. (Matt Crawford I don't understand, though. He regularly sends abusive notes of complaint on rec.humor.funny. I have told him that we must simply agree to disagree, and asked him why he insists on reading the group if it bothers so much. I guess he could make a good newsgroup moderator because he obviously has a lot of free time! 8-) ) And Karl Denninger, please stop lying about my intentions or I'll hire Jonathan Richmond to sue you. 8-) I will now negotiate and sign contracts with Genie and Delphi. -- Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473