Tetsuya, > > Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics.
> ROTFL. Statistics won't tell a lie. > Would you like to damn off the Vadim's > http://www.apache.org/~vgritsenko/stats/index.html No. However, someone naively looking at them, and not knowing about mirroring and the inconsistent state across the ASF with respect to that transition would be likely to draw incorrect beliefs. Statistics can be terribly misleading, while appearing to say something correct and meaningful. You posted statistics related to volume of posting. But why? I don't consider it a meaningful statistic. Consider: - the person who devotes time and energy to the utterly glamourless and totally thankless job of handling all of the Foundation's paperwork. - someone who sees a need by various projects that is not being filled, fills that need at considerable personal financial expense, and to compound it, sees the effort (rightly or wrongly) raise concernss over oversight and security. - people who are quitely working behind the scenes to make sure that mail is delivered, accounts are created, servers are upgraded, etc. None of that is represented in statistics related to e-mail volume. There are quite a few people whose efforts go unsung, unappreciated, and undervalued by most. But if you want to consider just people who express some thought on a particular issue, such as the incubator, please answer me this ... to whose words should I listen: the prattling fool who goes on and on with little thought, or the wise haiku master who expresses deep concepts in a few well-chosen and long-thought-out words that inspire those who hear them? I deliberately picked extremes, and am *not* ascribing those characteristics to anyone (OK, Roy can be the haiku master), but I trust that I have made my point: quantity and quality are not related. --- Noel --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
