Xref: utzoo news.admin:11340 comp.sources.d:6071 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!sicsun!disuns2!warkent From: warkent@ltisun7.epfl.ch (Ken Warkentyne) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: Comp.sources.unix and replacing Rich Salz Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 90 08:39:32 GMT References: <10820@rayssd.ssd.ray.com> <1990Nov28.214659.26551@looking.on.ca> <1990Nov30.165238.2018@ism.isc.com> <49924@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> Sender: news@disuns2.epfl.ch Followup-To: news.admin Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne---Labaratoire de Teleinformatique Lines: 25 In-reply-to: jerry@olivey.olivetti.com's message of 30 Nov 90 21:08:42 GMT In article <49924@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.olivetti.com (Jerry Aguirre) writes: First, Rich may not want to [etc.] I've seen a lot of comments of the form "Rich may think this or Rich may think that" but I have yet to see a comment from Mr. Salz himself. As the moderator of comp.sources.unix, does he not have a responsibility to state his position or is this an annual debate in which case there should be something relevant in the USENET Guidelines? For the record, I support the idea of an editor who farms out packages to reviewers. I would even volunteer to review software although I can only promise to do one or two reviews per quarter depending on the complexity of the package. Furthermore, as has already been suggested, there is no reason why the job of editor cannot be automated by introducing an "editor server" for controlling the passage of items to be reviewed between submitters and reviewers. The only human intervention necessary is perhaps in the area of assuring a minimum of competance in the reviewers (i.e. reviewing the qualifications of potential reviewers and removing a reviewer in the case of justified complaints). -- Ken Warkentyne - warkent@ltisun.epfl.ch | "In fact, the "fame" is sometimes the Laboratoire de Teleinformatique, | worst part." - Brad Templeton, humble EPFL, Suisse. | moderator & bookseller.