[Bell Historians] New poll for bellhistorians

[Ron Johnston]

Why waste your time replying to this.

All knowledge is provisional. The compilers of Dove have 
established a system for updating the record, which is 
consistent and - obviously - fallible. But if you have 
different decision-making criteria for different sources, 
the result is chaos and dissension.

And it is not helped when, as soon as somebody who claims 
expert status is told, perfectly politely, that the 
information he has provided is valuable but the compilers 
would prefer to have it confirmed in the accepted way, 
then he immediately conducts a 'straw poll' to try 
and undermine that system - which it won't because the 
only polls that matter are taken scientifically: this one 
isn't .

Some of us have jobs as well!

Disgusted from the salisbury close

On 1 Sep 2004 10:40:38 -0000 bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com wrote:

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> Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the 
> bellhistorians group:
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> When deciding on tenor weights to go in 
> Dove (where the weight is unknown or 
> dubious), should the compilers 
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> o Accept the views of established bell historians, based on the technical details of the bell 
> o Put whatever the local ringers want, regardless of accuracy 
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> To vote, please visit the following web page:
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bellhistorians/surveys?id=11864073 
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> Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are 
> not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups 
> web site listed above.
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> Thanks!
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Ron Johnston
School of Geographical Sciences,
University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1SS
0117 928 9116 (FAX 0117 928 7878)
r.johnston at b...

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