Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!becker!bdb From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce D. Becker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!! Message-ID: <57800@becker.UUCP> Date: 2 Dec 90 02:02:22 GMT References: <972@iiasa.UUCP> <1990Nov28.020040.5518@looking.on.ca> <15169@cs.utexas.edu> Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 41 In article <15169@cs.utexas.edu> werner@cs.utexas.edu (Werner Uhrig) writes: |In <1990Nov28.020040.5518@looking.on.ca> (Brad Templeton) writes: |>People may pound on Rich, but perhaps he is the symptom and not the problem. |>Source and binary group moderating is probably one of the toughest jobs. |>you get what you pay for. The people doing it should get some compensation. | | yes, I see a symptom of the problem that we have not instituted | a methodology of having multiple moderators share the load and | to guarantee "continuity and reliability of service". Good idea. | The idea | of "compensation" is undoubtedly flourishing in the mind of people | who make networking a income-generating enterprise; I wish them | luck. I, on the other hand, do not (at least for the UseNet). Many people on this net perform arduous tasks without compensation currently, and do so for their own reasons. If they need more or different compensation, they tend to arrange things accordingly. They certainly deserve our thanks and gratitude, but paying back in kind seems most beneficial. "compensation", in the form of financial stipends or the like, seems an easy and innocuous way to deal with things. But over time the recipients of same build such receipts into their expectations until such tasks begin to be defined as "for pay", thereby hastening the day when IBM, AT&T, & the like, manage and own the UseNet... "We are all Rich $alz" - Anon. -- ,u, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ontario a /i/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `\o\-e UUCP: ...!uunet!mnetor!becker!bdb _< /_ "I still have my phil-os-o-phy" - Meredith Monk Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com