Hi HP3000-L,

The SIGWeb ballot contains items asking for HP to officially support both
Sendmail and Perl.  I know there are WAY MORE than 82 users of Sendmail and
Perl out there ;-), so if HP support for these packages is important to you,
please PLEASE vote!

You do not need to be a member of Interex or any SIG in order to vote.  The
only requirement is a desire to directly influence the functionality of future
releases of MPE.

- Mark B.

John Burke wrote:
>
> Hopefully, many of you are digesting the ballot issues before voting since
> only 82 people had voted on at least one ballot as of 9:00 PM EST Sunday
> night. You have less than 5 days left!
>
> As a SIG leader, I was certainly hoping we would receive, minimally, several
> hundred ballots. This would help justify all the hard work that went into
> creating the ballots in the less then two weeks time from the end of SIG3000
> to the start of voting. We worked hard to make the preparation of the final
> SIB as inclusive as possible through the public SIG ballots. 82 votes is
> well under 10% of all subscribers to HP3000-L. When you add in all the
> people who see this traffic via the newsgroup, we probably have a response
> so far of under 5% of all people who know about the voting.
>
> More important than the SIG leader's feelings, however, is the need to show
> CSY that customers care enough about user-initiated enhancements to take the
> half hour to study the issues and vote. Remember, as others have already
> said, CSY has for the first time committed resources to working on projects
> identified through the SIB process. If we cannot generate significant
> interest in these initiatives, why should CSY commit anything in the future?
>
> Go to http://oblina.csillc.com/sigs  or http://207.103.9.100/sigs
> print out a copy of each ballot, spend a half hour or so studying the items
> and then vote! Do not let this opportunity to make a difference pass without
> being heard.
> Speaking only for myself,
> John Burke

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