Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cornell!uw-beaver!rice!sun-spots-request
From: crum%lipari.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: news quench?, suggestion for times when moderator is absent
Keywords: Miscellaneous
Message-ID: <8904120340.AA15555@lipari.usc.edu>
Date: 27 Apr 89 08:21:00 GMT
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Original-Date: Tue, 11 Apr 89 20:40:26 PDT
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 258, message 7 of 11

I have not seen new articles in the comp.sys.sun newsgroup here for over
24 hours.  This is uncharacteristic, and I wonder if it is because the
sun-spots moderator has left for Sun's New World Expo event in San
Francisco on Thu 13-Apr.  Whether or not this is the case, I would like to
register the following suggestion:

When the moderator is absent during major topic-related events, allow
sun-spots contributions to be posted directly without moderation, at least
to the USENET side of the comp.sys.sun distribution.

This desire for instant information access may be just a silly cultural
fad, but it's rather cute to see technology events reported in USENET
postings with a lag time of less than a day, complete with details,
deductions, opinions and speculation.  (See the alt.fusion confusion.)
It's wide-area distributed interactive news propagation!

So, post articles about the Campus 1 and Lego products straight from the
expo with your 386 laptop and KA9Q packet radio interface to the internet,
please!

Thanks,
Gary

[[ The moderator only wishes that the recent lag was due to a cushy
all-expense-paid trip to california!  It is unfortunately very far from
the truth.  He was actually slaving away as the TeXpert consultant on a
proposal that had to "go out the door yesterday".  I thought that only
students pulled all-nighters.  Sigh.  Rest assured that efforts are
currently underway to (1) reduce the volume on sun-spots and (2) move away
from heavy moderation.  --wnl ]]