Xref: utzoo news.admin:11317 comp.sources.d:6056 alt.sources.d:1106 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!turbo.bio.net!lear From: lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.sources.d,alt.sources.d Subject: Re: Comp.sources.unix and replacing Rich Salz Message-ID: Date: 2 Dec 90 03:31:05 GMT References: <1990Nov27.075737.16836@vicom.com> <10820@rayssd.ssd.ray.com> <1990Nov28.214659.26551@looking.on.ca> <2756B0EF.1971@wilbur.coyote.trw.com> Followup-To: news.admin Organization: GenBank Computing Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 37 scott@wiley.uucp (Scott Simpson) writes: >What a bunch of crap. If you take over a moderatorship and you don't >live up to your time commitments then you have gone back on your word. >There are people who do have the time to moderate comp.sources.unix >and who have volunteered and I and many others in the USENET community >would rather have them moderating comp.sources.unix. Just because Greg >isn't willing to become the cook doesn't mean he should accept burnt >eggs. First of all, I don't remember Rich *ever* promising *ANY* level of service. When it comes to burnt eggs, when you pay for NO EGGS, don't complain when they come burnt. Nobody's asking you to eat them. If you simply choose to throw a moderator out on his ear based on volume. comp.sources.unix was never *meant* to be a high throughput group. That's why comp.sources.misc exists. You people are all bitching at Rich when you should be replacing Brandon, who has *ASKED* to be replaced. >>If you can't *do*, we may not be so keen on having you teach. That's the >>way USENET works. Those who put their time and effort and resources into >>doing things are the people who make and control the network. If you are >>not willing to put those things in, you get no say. Your wonderful little demonstration of logic leads me to conclude that you should cancel your article, and not post until you've done something for USENET. >(Thoreau or Patrick Henry or somebody has a much >more elegant phrasing of this position.) >Scott Simpson TRW scott@coyote.trw.com Thoreau was a loudmouth. Henry was part of a revolution. -- Eliot Lear [lear@turbo.bio.net]