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From: chuq%plaid@Sun.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Expiration dates on OtherRealms
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Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 16:01:38 EDT
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In article <1794@xanth.UUCP> kyle@xanth.UUCP (Kyle Jones) writes:
>> My tax dollars are currently padding Chuq's ego.

Actually, your tax dollars are supporting a service I give to the net. I get
my ego padded quite enough by the real version of OtherRealms, which is
published and read (and enjoyed, and referenced [see the latest Zelazny
paperback, for instance]) by the folks in the industry I'm writing for.  I
put it on the net as well so that the folks who have access to the net can
enjoy it as well.

Ego-boost?  Being on the cover of Melissa Scott's new book is ego-boost.
Being isn't even in the running -- I do that because I believe in putting
something back into the net that has given me so much over the years.  I
don't believe in parasitism, but symbiosis.

>Perhaps Chuq (as a moderator) should have posted an article to news.admin
>stating that he was going to use longer than normal expirations on his
>OtherRealms postings.  News administrators could then make the decision
>whether to expire rec.mag.otherrealms separately (depending on whether they
>agreed with Chuq's reasoning).

I said this once before, but evidently not loudly or clearly enough.  The
expiration date change was being tested over a couple of issues to see if it
helped. John Gilmore was nice enough to take it public before the test was
over, so by default the test is over and it's been hashed out.  It would
have been taken public when I was ready to defend it (or else it would have
been killed silently if I didn't like the results).

chuq
Chuq Von Rospach	chuq@sun.COM		Delphi: CHUQ

We live and learn, but not the wiser grow -- John Pomfret (1667-1703)