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From: sob@tmc.edu (Stan Barber)
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Subject: Re: Comp.sources.unix and replacing Rich Salz
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Date: 3 Dec 90 08:04:23 GMT
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In article <1990Nov29.172427.11437@acc.stolaf.edu> rabe@thor.acc.stolaf.edu (brett m rabe; Jiffy Script Inc.) writes:
>I don't know R $alz.  I don't dislike him.  But I have heard story
>after story from people who don't get even so much as a 1 line note
>from him when they submit something letting them know that he got
>it.  He apparently doesn't even have the courtesy to say "I got
>your submission, I'm buried over my neck in work right now, I'll
>look at it sometime in the future."  Apparently, he just doesn't
>even give people that much, which sure as hell wouldn't take a lot
>of time out of his work day.  

Speaking as the curator of NNTP & RN/RRN, moderator of a newsgroup and 
one-time coordinator of a mailing list, it is VERY hard to find time to
reply personally to everyone. I get around the problem with a program
that works kinda like vacation. It just sends a message back to the 
sender saying that I have received the mail.

I still occassionally get flamed at for being so impersonal. I guess it
is the fate we deserve. Occasionally, I get fed up with or hurt by
with all the folks out there who expect the same kind of service they get
when they by software support contracts. USENET is just not like that.
Perhaps someone will commercialize USENET in the same manner that efforts
are underway to commercialize the internet. Then, people can pay other people
for such efforts. At that time, such complaints have a real place. Until then,
I guess it's just more flame wars.

-- 
Stan           internet: sob@bcm.tmc.edu         Director, Networking 
Olan           uucp: {rutgers,mailrus}!bcm!sob   and Systems Support
Barber         Opinions expressed are only mine. Baylor College of Medicine