Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 7 Apr 91 0:34:47 CST From: TELECOM Moderator Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Administrivia: Clocks; Mail Backlog; A Personal Matter Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 271, Message 1 of 12 Lines: 57 Sunday, April 7 at 2:00 AM (your local time) marks our semi-annual tinkering with our clocks in the USA ... and as 'they' say, we spring ahead and fall behind (one hour each time). This is the last issue of the Digest you will see with a CST time stamp for a few months. Speaking of falling behind, the incoming rush of new mail to telecom has slowed down a little, and with some dedicated effort on my part and a few issues of the Digest on Sunday, everything should get cleared out. But this experience -- the past several days of *hard* work and *long* hours to get the Digest out to you has taught me one thing, or maybe two: Effective immediatly, I can no longer give any acknowledgement of what is sent other than the auto-ack which goes out to most of you. I can no longer return mail not used; nor will I be able to take the time to do a lot of editing work. You will have to do it. Save copies of your articles (which you send here) if you consider them valuable. I've been trying to publish at least half of what comes in; I receive, on an average, 60-80 items daily, but this past week there were a couple days with well over 100 items received each day. Combined with last weekend's fiasco, that created a huge backlog here. I still want to publish as much as possible -- to present as many wide and divergent viewpoints as I can within the limits placed on me as a human being who otherwise works 8-10 hours daily at a place of gainful employment, but *something* has to give! From the most prolific of you: please, only one or two items per week if possible. You know who I mean. To all of you: Please match up the subject threads correctly. When you REply, use the header as it appears in the original. Otherwise, I have to go back to the old issues and look for the correct matching word. Try to edit your text and check your spelling. If I must select only a few of the several *good* articles which arrive daily, I will pick the ones that: are short and to the point; require little editing; use a minimum of quoted text; and are not redundant two weeks after the fact. If you get behind reading, that's too bad, but don't send in REplies to articles which appeared here two or three weeks ago without reading everything in the thread to make sure your point has not been made by others since. The more YOU do to help, the more I can publish here. If the Digest winds up taking much more of my time than it takes now, then it won't take any time at all ... I'll close it down out of a desire to preserve my own sanity. Enough said. For next: my father is quite ill. Actually, he has been ill for some time, and this is his second stay in the VA hospital in two months. From all indications, he'll be leaving us soon. When that time comes, I'll be away for a few days -- perhaps a week -- and of necessity will have to suspend the Digest for the interim. I'll let you know, and ask you to hold submissions until I return. PAT