Xref: utzoo news.admin:11463 comp.sources.d:6125 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!convex.csd.uwm.edu!jgd From: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu (John G Dobnick) Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.sources.d Subject: Re: The responsibilities of volunteers Summary: Let's fight opinion with facts, eh? Message-ID: <8195@uwm.edu> Date: 9 Dec 90 01:46:27 GMT References: <27662@cs.yale.edu> Sender: news@uwm.edu Reply-To: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu Lines: 48 Originator: jgd@convex.csd.uwm.edu From article <27662@cs.yale.edu>, by horne-scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne): > In article <1842@utodaycom> sean@utoday.UUCP (Sean Fulton) writes: > > First, I (one "student at Yale"--has anyone seen another on this group?) > am *not* bashing Rich. When he does his task, he does it well. But he's > not doing it. ... [And, thus, you are "bashing" him.] Let's deal in some facts, if you please. How long has Rich been moderating c.s.u? And, in that time, how many packages have been released? To answer my own questions... I think Rich assumed the post of c.s.u moderator in July 1986. By my count, this was 4 1/2 years (234 weeks) ago. A very cursory examination of the c.s.u archives on uunet reveals about 450 'packages' issued in that time. This averages out to 1.95 'packages' per week, or one every 3 to 4 days. Conclusion... What's *wrong* with you people? *Two* "fixes" a week aren't sufficient? Are you addicted to a constant flow of free code, or what? Maybe the 'solution' to this situation is to implement what Brian Reid did in the (now moribund?) alt.recipes group. When he 'sent' something out, it actually went into an output queue. A periodic daemon then actually transmitted (a small number of) articles weekly, thus artifically levelling the flow rate. Perhaps a lessening of expectations in this manner would quiet some of the noise we have been hearing? Nahhhh.... too logical. It'd never work. The 'mob' would refuse to understand. Opinion... I suggest all you complainers go crawl back under your rocks! Irkedly, [and yes, that turned into a flame!] -- John G Dobnick (JGD2) Computing Services Division @ University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee INTERNET: jgd@csd4.csd.uwm.edu ATTnet: (414) 229-5727 UUCP: uunet!uwm!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!jgd "Knowing how things work is the basis for appreciation, and is thus a source of civilized delight." -- William Safire