Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!nuchat!sugar!karl
From: karl@sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: USENET REVIEWS
Message-ID: <1796@sugar.UUCP>
Date: 5 Apr 88 23:04:17 GMT
References: <540@lakesys.UUCP> <3527@cbmvax.UUCP>
Organization: Sugar Land UNIX - Houston, TX
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Summary: Anonymous Denunciation; Can it be called usenet?

I have been following this Usenet Seal of Approval business with interest,
albeit also with some skepticism.  I'm not sure if this amorphous blob
of hackers can get it going and keep it together.  Also, I am still
concerned about using the name "usenet", like, that it belongs to someone.

In any case, if it does get set up, someone should maintain a mail link
by which the rest of us, those who aren't directly participating, can 
"denounce" software being reviewed; that is, we can report any bugs or
problems that we have encountered with the product.  Thus, the coordinator
would post a list of software being reviewed that month and a solicitation
of user experiences.  The rest of us would send in what we know.  These bug 
reports would be verified, if possible, by the "movers."  It helps them,
too, because a hardcore user will have found more bugs than a reviewer;
also, it helps point at places to look for problems.

P.S.  I do not think backwards compatability to 1.1 should be required as a 
condition of approval.

Regards -k
-- 
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