[ppml] Re: Independent space from ARIN

[bmanning at karoshi.com]

> Wow,
> 
> Mury
> 
> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> 
> >  on Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 06:07:48PM -0400, Lee Howard wrote:
> > > http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/index.html
> > > That's archives of PPML, for your grepping pleasure.
> >
> > Per http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/author.html, 169 people
> > have mailed the list since Jun 08 2000.  Per
> > http://www.arin.net/mailing_lists/ppml/date.html, there have been
> > 1551 posts since that time.  Of the 1893 members, 8% posted on the
> > list, if all 169 people are members.

	that might be a big IF

> > What would be interesting to know is is that silent majority silent
> > because they are happy, silent because they are afraid to speak
> > up, or silent because they simply don't know this list and/or the
> > meetings exist?
> >
> >        Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440

	Or...  they weigh the percentage of public debate with this
	crowd against washing their hair/shaving the dog/getting a
	root canal...

	Public lists are good for many things, including raising 
	issues.  Constructive debate on how to resolve those issues
	is often better done in smaller groups. 

--bill