Oh I thought I was following orders of the OP. I thought he/she wanted everyone to copy the list with the amount of people interested and paste as part of their post, updating what they wanted. That way you could or should just have to go to the last page to what the totals are. But I agree that having a poll would be a lot easier.
And now that you have me thinking, I am wondering if this would make more sense to have it in the Discussion section instead of us 848'ers hogging all the information and more people might be abt to seeing it.