Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jim
From: jim@lsuc.on.ca (Jim Mercer)
Subject: Re: comp.sources.unix
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.152104.26760@lsuc.on.ca>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
References: <91@dlss2.UUCP> <1837@delgeo.UUCP> <1990Oct3.192556.23954@vicom.com> <1990Oct9.011802.2381@ednor.bbc.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 15:21:04 GMT

In article <1990Oct9.011802.2381@ednor.bbc.com> cgf@ednor.bbc.com (Chris Faylor) writes:
>In article <1990Oct3.192556.23954@vicom.com> lmb@vicom.com (Larry Blair) writes:
>>I once again renew my call for a new moderator for c.s.u.  Rich has not
>>performed this job well for last two years.
>
>I'd like to second the vote.

Hey People!   Wake UP!!!!

what, you think just because there is a group called sources, there should
be a never ending flow of useful programs????

the proceeds of *.sources.* require at least a couple steps:

a) someone has to sit down and spend uncounted hours designing and implementing
   a useful utility, that will hopefully function on many platforms.

b) several people will beta test it to make sure it works in practice, not just
   on the author's machine.

c) submit the beast to the moderator.

d) if enough time was spent doing b), the moderator should be able to verify
   that it does what it says, and submit it to the queue.

e) if not, it either gets trashed, or put on hold until the moderator has time.

all of the above steps are done with out payment and in spare time.
very few of us are actually paid to administrate news (directly) and even
fewer are sanctioned to spend "company" time developing software that we are
going to give away.

maybe Rich is a little slow in getting stuff into the queue.

so what?  at least he's willing to put time into the system.

it doesn't take much to post complaints about something.

you want faster submissions to *.sources.*?

you moderate it.

just be prepared for a monthly batch of complaints from either people
waiting for their free software, or from people bitching about mistakes you
make in the submissions.

hopefully your boss won't find out how much time you spend making sure the
*.sources.* trough is always full.  i don't think you'll be able to do that
as a part time evening/weekend job.

just figured i should say my piece.

rich: do the best you can.  it is all we can or should ask.

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