Re: How to poll the users

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > * Mail to info-gnu-emacs and help-gnu-emacs, and any other suitable
  > > place, presenting the proposed change in sufficient detail that people
  > > can judge it, and where to email the response, as well as what kind of
  > > information we seek.

  > How many subscribers do these mailing lists have?

I don't know.  Do you?

We could ask the FSF sysadmins.

  > For comparison,

Those two lists are the only ways I know of to reach Emacs users.

I don't know of any other suitable places, but it is good to find
more.

                    the StackOverflow surveys we've seen mentioned in this 
  > thread count about 4000 dedicated Emacs users (that filled out the 
  > survey). The Emacs StackExchange site has around 20'000 registered 
  > users. The Emacs subreddit has almost 40'000 subscribers.

I have never used StackExchange or Reddit, and I don't know how they
are structured.  Are you suggesting them as additional places to send
our polls to?

Have you got any other suggestions of places?

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Dr Richard Stallman
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