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From: wnp@iiasa.ac.at (wolf paul)
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Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!!
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Date: 27 Nov 90 06:21:30 GMT
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In article <1990Nov26.170347.3198@decuac.dec.com> mjr@hussar.dco.dec.com (Marcus J. Ranum) writes:
> It stands
>to reason that if Rich is too busy to handle c.s.u., maybe he's
>too busy to answer all the mail he (doubtless) gets about it - so
>don't credit to rudeness what may be simply overload.

What makes one wonder is the fact that when the calls for a
replacement moderator reach a climax, then Rich finds the time to
release a handful of postings, until the calls have died down, and
then the group goes to sleep again.

Unfortunately a handful of postings is not enough to actually flush
the queue, so the backlog seems to get bigger and bigger.
--
W.N.Paul, Int. Institute f. Applied Systems Analysis, A-2361 Laxenburg--Austria
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