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From: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu (Wombat)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm, the newsgroup from hell
Summary: The overflowing cup cannot be filled.
Keywords: flames from below
Message-ID: <2998@s.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 17 May 88 07:05:24 GMT
References: <1022@bellboy.UUCP>
Reply-To: rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu.UUCP (Wombat)
Organization: Purdue Computing Center Unix Systems Staff
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In article <1022@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes:
>Why does Dave Taylor pop in and out of running this
>show like a jack-in-the-box??? Who claims responsibility
>for distributing Elm and accepting bug reports?? Why
>does Dave proclaim 2.0 is imminent and then dissappear?
>Why is 1.7 supposed to be so great, and it's not
>and nobody can get it? Why does noone answer
>the begging questions on the newsgroup?

I don't claim to speak for Dave, but it's not Dave's job to run this
newsgroup, support Elm for the entire world, or anything like that; I
suspect that he gets paid to do other sorts of work, and that his
priorities are thus focused elsewhere.  The answers to your questions
have all been contained in articles posted by Dave [and other folks]
over the past few months; I suggest that you stop screaming long enough
to listen carefully and quietly for them.  Finally, I remind you that
nobody is forcing you to care about or to use Elm; there are plenty
of other mailers (some with newsgroups to support them) out there.
-- 
Rich Kulawiec, rsk@s.cc.purdue.edu, s.cc.purdue.edu!rsk