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From: ian@unipalm.uucp (Ian Phillipps)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Moderator bashing (was Re: Yet another vuimg version...)
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.124316.22883@unipalm.uucp>
Date: 4 Feb 91 12:43:16 GMT
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chaz@chinet.chi.il.us (Charlie Kestner) writes:

>  I rarely see the complainers take on the job of "doer", so let's
>not have any more of this "wahhhhh...it didn't work...wahhhh...there's
>too many versions....wahhhh...there's not bug-fixes....wahhhh" kinds
>of things.

[Please see a separate posting apologising to Bill Davidsen]

As a point of information, I have made the following submissions to usenet:

- A pretty geometric doo-dah of no particular usefulness (posted to
  comp.sources.misc: free)

- An improved version of a port of unix "ed" (sources posted to c.s.m;
  binaries sent to a previous cpib moderator and never posted, as far
  as I know - free)

- A port of "perl" V3 to DOS. Patches mailed to Larry Wall at his
  request - I don't know whether his supported version is mine or some
  better one. Copyleft imposed by Larry.

- Bugfix and some improvements to the fdfmt program (patches submitted to
  author)

I we weren't at the wrong end of an expensive mail link from most submitters
to the network, I'd be happy to be a moderator.

As a user of many cbip programs, I accept them in the spirit in which they
are offered, which varies.

Ian