Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ccicpg!turnkey!stanton!donegan
From: donegan@stanton.TCC.COM (Steven P. Donegan)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: Elm, the newsgroup from hell
Summary: What seems to be the problem?
Keywords: flames from below
Message-ID: <41@stanton.TCC.COM>
Date: 17 May 88 23:44:46 GMT
References: <1022@bellboy.UUCP>
Organization: Stanton Public Domain Systems, Stanton, Ca.
Lines: 41

In article <1022@bellboy.UUCP>, hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes:
> **FLAME ON**
> I think it's real crappy the way this Elm newsgroup
> is being run. I have been following it faithfully
> for a year or so....
> 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??

I hadn't noticed him popping back, must have missed that one.

> does Dave proclaim 2.0 is imminent and then dissappear?

The last thing I read from Dave indicated that his employer needed a little
more of his time doing his normal job, and that this was the reason behind
his 'abandonment' of all his faithful users.

> Why is 1.7 supposed to be so great, and it's not

I think it works quite nicely. The only 'feature' I have yet to be able to
get to work correctly is the encryption of text within the lette

> and nobody can get it? Why does noone answer
> the begging questions on the newsgroup?

Elm 1.7 is, and has been for quite a while,  available. It is on several
archive sites and if you have no access to those you are quite welcome
to uucp (direct call only) it from my system. Drop me a line if you so wish.


> Is this really the newsgroup out of hell?
> -- 
> Greg

Could be.

-- 
Steven P. Donegan
Sr. Telecommunications Analyst
Western Digital Corp.
donegan@stanton.TCC.COM