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From: pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham)
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Subject: Re: Rich $alz is still alive ??!!!??!!
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Date: 1 Dec 90 05:08:40 GMT
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vandys@sequent.uucp (Andrew Valencia) writes:
|news@acsu.Buffalo.EDU writes:

[that should be pjg not news, and this discussion is scattered in
 too many groups]
|Can't we find a better way to deal with this than some sort of cliqueish
|organization stemming from "outrage"?  I offered my services as a porting
|and screening support guy, to offload Rich so that he can (a) maintain the
|standards of c.s.u, but (b) not have to do it all by himself.  He expressed
|interest.

if you'd prefer you can substitute displeasure or some other emotion
of dissatisfaction.  i suggest a specific plan because
1) c.s.u. has been too slow of late.  when the previous moderator left
   a sucessor was found.  now rich hasn't really left but we have
   heard nothing about a scheme for replacing the moderator.  some ideas
   have been floated but the only way we currently have to deal with this
   is to create another newsgroup.
2) lots of folks are interested in helping.  i don't know how many have
   contacted rich but perhaps you can provide a bit more detail about
   the interest he expressed in your offer.  such as when you made it,
   when he answered and what's the current state.
3) i don't believe any group of size greater than one can be any more of
   a clique than the current one moderating c.s.u.


i'm sure that if uunet* simply offered to collect the submissions lots
of folks would look them over and the net would debug/screen/port things
as a collective effort.  automatically and with no fuss.  one could make
it nicer by publishing the man page in a group with a pointer to ftp/uucp
sites.

we could call it comp.sources.unix.pointers.

*or some other major ftp site.
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