From: gee7759@bcstec.ca.boeing.com (Glenn Elliott)
Newsgroups: rec.games.frp.advocacy,rec.games.frp.misc
Subject: Re: CFV: BANNED AT GENCON!!!
Keywords: straw poll Ragnarok TSR
Date: 27 Jul 92 20:58:41 GMT
Followup-To: rec.games.frp.advocacy
Organization: Boeing Computer Services, Seattle

Due to an unforseeable accounting error, our site lost its USENET feed
for several weeks.  It was during that time period that I was going to
post the results to my straw poll.  Things have quieted down since
then, but the results may be of interest anyway.

The final count was 34 pro-Ragnarok, 31 pro-TSR, and 10 don't-care.
There were a couple of other miscellaneous votes, which are shown
below.  As you can see, NO ONE was in the majority.  The issue was
almost evenly split.

The totals include all votes mailed to me, as well as opinions taken
from the various discussions (flames?) on the net.

A fair number of responses indicated that they were not really
pro-Ragnarok or pro-TSR, but that the responder did not like the
other company and so wanted to vote against them.

I was surprised by the number of responses.  Thanks to all who
participated.  Here are the votes:

Pro Ragnarok

  David Nalle
  David Van Cleef
  Doug Ingram
  nicholas.j.sauer
  Brain Misiaszek
  barry@playfair.stanford.edu (Barry Eynon)
  psikr01@convex.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Peter Kretschmar)
  sos@oz.plymouth.edu (Steffan O'Sullivan)
  wrr3118@tamsun.samu.edu (Rick Russell)
  GARBETT@utkvx.utk.edu
  prufrock@Athena.MIT.EDU
  hopcraft@spock.ecs.umass.edu (Geoff Hopcraft)
  lavonius@cc.helsinki.fi (Ville Lavonius)
  klf1305@tarkas.tamu.edu (Kelly Fergason)
  ahankin1@cc.swarthmore.edu
  colorado@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Martin Snow)
  aldrich@milton.u.washington.edu (Dwane Aldrich)
  shippert@cco.caltech.edu (Tim Shippert)
  holzman@fnal.fnal.gov
  laurence@cco.caltech.edu (Dustin Laurence )
  poirier@dg-rtp.dg.com (Charles Poirier)
  dxh107@psuvm.psu.edu
  uunet!orionsci!goodwin (Ben Goodwin)
  gblock@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Gregory R. Block)
  floyd@casbah.acns.nwu.edu
  sl930@cc.usu.edu (Colin)
  jduffin@pnet51.orb.mn.org
  Kevin Murcray
  sandia!marms@unmvax.cs.unm.edu
  Peter Wake
  Greg Porter
  James Seymour
  Doug Gibson
  Laird Popkin
  (34)


Pro TSR

  Axly
  john.setzer
  Melvin H. Nicholson
  Mr. Network News
  Kurt Bose
  J. Michael Tisdel
  Robert Crawford
  Bryan J. Maloney
  (Glenn Elliott)
  root@chicken.boeing.com (Bob Hall)
  cline@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu (Ernest Cline)
  gdg019@cck.coventry.ac.uk (Ridley McIntyre)
  vutpakdi@sws.slb.com (Ron)
  ghost@ra.nrl.navy.mil
  will@kafka.saic.com (Will Scarvie)
  doherty@count.ctron.com (Jim Doherty)
  kan9691@eeidf002.ca.boeing.com (Ken Niedermeyer)
  buzzsaw@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael Elias Campbell)
  a481@mindlink.bc.ca (J.D. Frazer)
  steve@jetslag.cam.org (Steve Perkins)
  cassidy@cps.msu.edu (John J Cassidy)
  stu@voodoo.boeing.com (Stuart Liddle)
  christopher k farrell
  Fred Scott
  Shannon D. Appel
  Tim Dunn
  Martin V. Walser
  Mathew B. Downer
  Matthew Goldman
  Patrick Rannou
  Joshua E. Randall
  (31)


Don't Care

cal@fang.att.com (Charles A. Licata)
c85perwe@und.ida.liu.se (Per Westling)
ceroburn@Athena.MIT.EDU (Charles Roburn)
rockwell@socrates.umd.edu (Raul Deluth Miller-Rockwell)
marauder@freja.diku.dk (Stephan Dahl)
andy@hpsmo100.rose.hp.com (Andy Young)
jhart@ugcs.caltech.edu (John Hart)
  Curtis Scott
  H++ Visser
  Darrell Leland
(10)


Others

anti-TSR:
gletty@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Bruce Gletty)
ap38+@andrew.cmu.edu (Anthony S. Polito)

let SS be shown, but muzzle David Nalle:
ts2a+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Omar Smith)

-- 
Glenn E. Elliott               | Anyone who believes that what I say or do
Computing Systems Analyst      | represents the policies or procedures of
Boeing Computer Services       | The Boeing Company has more lawyers than
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