Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wyse!vsi1!apple!well!pokey
From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: comp.sources.unix
Message-ID: <7681@well.UUCP>
Date: 19 Nov 88 06:53:05 GMT
References: <184@twwells.uucp>
Reply-To: Jef Poskanzer <jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov>
Organization: Paratheo-Anametamystikhood Of Eris Esoteric, Ada Lovelace Cabal
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In the referenced message, bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) wrote:
>Mr. Poskanzer,
>Shut your yap.  We moderate newsgroups out of generosity, spending
>time and money to so, because we believe that what we are doing is a
>good thing.  You have no business badmouthing one of us because he
>isn't doing it just the way you'd like.

I write free software out of generosity, spending time and money to
do so, because I believe that what I am doing is a good thing.  But
when I try to get it distributed, what do I find?  The moderated sources
groups are dead for months at a time, and the unmoderated sources group
reaches only half the net.  I'm not the only one who has pointed this out.
I'm not the only one who objects.

>Suggestions are welcome, personal remarks are not.

Yes, suggestions are welcome, but holier-than-thou chest-beating is not.
And by the way, the message you replied to included a suggestion.  Perhaps
you were too busy yapping to notice and comment on it.  It is certainly
clear that the moderators are uninterested in making any suggestions of
their own.

>You owe him, and all the other moderators out here, an apology.

Oh?  And when was the last time we saw an apology from one of the
moderators after a "vacation"?
---
Jef

             Jef Poskanzer   jef@rtsg.ee.lbl.gov   ...well!pokey
 "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution
                       inevitable." -- John F. Kennedy