Scanning the last few days of posting by hand, I find 57 posts in the XML
poll thread. I have not carefully scanned them to find if anyone posted
more than once, but a cursory look suggests that there was little if any
double posting.
Six of the messages did not express a strong preference (or else did not
belong in the thread).
Four posted in favor of keeping XML in SPF.
Forty-seven posted against keeping XML in SPF.
I personally believe most of the posters confined themselves to the
technical merits of the issue, which is why I consider the results
more significant than a popularity poll. Even if it was simply a
popularity poll, though, a ratio of almost twelve-to-one against is
hard to ignore.
Thanks to all participants. -- George Mitchell