The possibility to relate multiplicity distributions and their moments, as
measured in the hadronic final state in e(+)e(-) annihilation, to features of
the initial partonic state is analyzed from a theoretical and phenomenological
point of view. Recent developments on the subject are discussed.Comment: 13 pages, 3 figures (PS included); LaTeX 2e compatibility mode, uses
epsfig and amstex. Available also via
http://www.thep.lu.se/tf2/hep/article.hep.html . To be published in the
Proceedings of XXVI Multiparticle Dynamics (Faro, Portugal, Sept 96
