On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 21:06:44 -0700, Max K-A <max_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > For example, if I put up: "What MTA do you use in your Fedora systems: > Sendmail (the default), Postfix, Exim, other" and we see that only 10% > of people are using one of them, we can actually say, "Let's put it in > Extras." If the numbers change in the future, we can move it back. None > of it is permanent. :-) Flawed methodology... these numbers only make sense if a majority of the userbase CARE about specific packages. I frankly dont give a flip about which mta i use, i'm not supporting any machines that NEED anything beyond sending mail from localhost out to the net. I never notice sendmail so i frankly do not CARE. The fact that I'm using sendmail is only evidence that its the default application to fit the function. And I would dare say, that a lot of people... a majority of users in the userbase are going to feel the same way about MOST if not all of the applications and services... they just dont care about the specifics beyond a couple of pet peeve apps. What you are going to find with this survey, are the squeaky wheels, the small percentage of the userbase not satified with the defaults. A survey that asks participants to self-select is flawed, its not going to cut across the full userbase in a representative fashion. Unless you can get an accurate representation of the total number of installs and have a way to RANDOMLY survey the userbase, your data wont represent anything beyond a weak statement like "some people in the userbase don't like sendmail as the default" becuase you will have no factual or statistical basis to say that the respondants in your survey represent a valid random cross-section of the base. Its flawed, dont do it, your just going to piss people off and give them bad data to base flamewars on. -jef"a survey like this might barely meet FoxNews definition of fair and unbiased...barely"spaleta
