-> On 14 Jul 06  04:27:01, Michiel van der Vlist got back to Vladimir Donskoy 
-> Re: Z7 again


 VD> Result : the network have near 540 nodes, and I receive 150 voices.
 VD> This is high percent :-) !

 MvdV> That indeed is very good. 28%.

 MvdV> Still not as good as real life elections. They are usually around 60%
 MvdV> here... 

When forced.  Saddam got 100% on his last election.  

 VD> Compare to percent of our referendum about Z7... And I think - NC's
 VD> work near for sysops his net, so - percent of (active) votes will
 VD> high.

 MvdV> 28% is good for Fidonet standards, but when compared to the outcome in
 MvdV> real life elections it is very low. So it makes me wonder how many of
 MvdV> those 540 nodes in your net are dead wood. 

As dead wood, you would know.  

 MvdV> In our refion (28), in 1997, when the decline was steepest, dead wood
 MvdV> estimaes were around 30%. 

Gee, that's nice:  Hem and hew[sic] about 2%  

 VD> I have same authority at our region too (I was NC 2:5055 for 2 times
 VD> and I still NEC of this now, if speak about official "hats")...

 MvdV> Two plus two still does not equal five, no matter how many hats of
 MvdV> athority you put on... 

Tell Ward to discard a few of his to even things up.    

 VD> I still very active in the our region, and I have no time for work
 VD> both our elections and discuss on this echo (and I must to work on job
 VD> - at real life, it need same time too).

Is that in bailing Blom out of jail?  


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