Re: Fwd: FYI: Site Local

[Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com>]

Rob Austein <sra@hactrn.net> writes:

> At 03 Apr 2003 09:12:43 -0800, Eric Rescorla wrote:
> > 
> > I don't think that you determine consensus by adding up
> > the meeting + the mailing list. They're independent sampling
> > events. With that in mind, I'd say this is *very* rough.
> 
> It's even worse than that.  There's a weird social thing going on due
> to the mechanics of the way that the question was asked: folks who
> were part of the consensus at the face to face meeting are NOT
> supposed to say anything, and while people who want to keep site-local
> have been asked to state their reasons, people who want to get rid of
> them have not.  Other things being equal, a lot of people play follow
> the leader.  Because of the way this question was asked, the number of
> leaders in favor of keeping site local looks larger than it really is.

Oh boy.

This sounds like a pretty messy way to come to a conclusion.

-Ekr