I never took your message personally.  I took it the way it was intended, a
criticism of the survey.  As I said earlier, we will be coming out with more
surveys, because Interex needs to have a good understanding of what the HP
e3000, a significant portion of its membership, is facing or considering.
Interex is here to help the 3000 community.

As I said in my response, this was an initial survey and it was done to get
a sense of the crowd, so to speak.  "Homesteading" was not even a word
associated with the 3000 at the time, and neither was OpenMPE.

Two things. I will make sure we properly gauge the "Homesteading" movement
and support it.  In my heart of hearts, I really do not believe this
movement is significant to the community as a whole, but I do think it is
large in importance to some.  Personally, I want it to succeed and I will
help.


Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Alden Smith [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 2:59 PM
To: HP3000 List; Denys Beauchemin
Cc: Frank Alden Smith
Subject: Re: Interex Survey Results - Request for feedback

Denys writes:

> Ok folks, now you have totally lost touch with reality.  There is no deep
> dark conspiracy at Interex to push people off MPE  thus doing HP's
> bidding. Heck, next you will be reporting black helicopters flying around
> newsgroups and this list.

Denys,

No one is (or at least I am not) calling the "intentional" bias in the
Interex survey a conspiracy. Further, I for one have not engaged in the HP
bashing, nor Interex bashing that has been seen on this and other lists.
While I can't claim I'm not worried about black helicopters ... I don't
think
you can dismiss our comments by simply characterizing them as a conspiracy
theory.

What I commented on is the blatant lack of balance in the Interex survey,
and that the creator of that survey had some purpose (intention) in
creating it just that way. In focusing on only one of three alternatives
open to the MPE community, i.e., migration, the survey
ignores "homesteading" completely. Such an obvious omission couldn't have
been accidental, or unintentional ... could it? Perhaps the survey's author
wanted to fulfill some personal prophecy, or make the survey data fit a pet
hypothesis; I don't know, but in the absence of an explanation you leave
the intention open to speculation.

Better than dismissing criticism of the survey perhaps you or the survey's
author would like to take a crack at addressing its obvious design flaws.
Better still why not perform a valuable service to the community by
correcting the survey's flaws and resubmitting it to give us a less biased
view of community opinion.

Lastly, Denys please do not take it personally! I am not being ad hominem.
I do respect and value your personal contributions to this community. I am
criticizing the Interex survey - I am not criticizing you!

Take care,
frank
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