Re: [Gnu-arch-users] The name of this mailing list is misleading

[Thomas Lord]

    > From: Andrew Suffield <address@hidden>

    > 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?

-t