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From: andy@cbmvax.commodore.com (Andy Finkel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two bug reports
Keywords: Keep USENet community informed of bug status
Message-ID: <13917@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 21 Aug 90 16:40:11 GMT
References: <5177@eklektik.UUCP> <13867@cbmvax.commodore.com> <13910@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1990Aug21.123304.5731@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
Reply-To: andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1990Aug21.123304.5731@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>andy@cbmvax (Andy Finkel) writes:
>>valentin@cbmvax (Valentin Pepelea) writes:

Sorry, I didn't see who I was replying to; otherwise I would
have had him post the correction.  His job doesn't involve him
with the details of the bug database so wouldn't know how it works.

>I think _everybody_ would like to see a monthly posting
>of new bug-number, bug-reported-by, bug-assigned-to,
>bug-priority, bug-one-line-descriptions from CBM show up
>in comp.sys.amiga.tech, and the load as a percent of the
>newsgroup volume would be infinitessimal.

I may get flames for this, but I feel this would not be a good
thing to do on Usenet as it currently exists.  Due to the nature
of the net (flames, rumors, flames about rumors, flames about
flames about rumors, etc, and the endless supply of factoids
and factoid generators and regenerators) it would quickly
degenerate into a PR nightmare.

Also, most of this type of thing is better handled internally.
(more efficiently, anyway).  On BIX our bug topics get a constant
stream of 'me too' messages, which add little to informational
content. Given the nature of Usenet, I suspect it would be a touch
worse here.

Maybe after the impending death of the net and replacement
by the next generation it could work :-)  (that's a joke, Son.)

			andy

>Kent, the man from xanth.

(BTW, a long thread of argument posted about the above would only
 confirm the point past any doubt.)
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