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From: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Status of USENET Macintosh Programmer's Guide??????
Message-ID: <4063@ece-csc.UUCP>
Date: 8 May 89 09:54:33 GMT
References: <8905072340.AA03787@jade.berkeley.edu> <8212@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Reply-To: jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall)
Organization: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
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In article <8212@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> bskendig@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Brian Scott Kendig) writes:
>In article <8905072340.AA03787@jade.berkeley.edu> DFJOHN01@ULKYVX writes:
>>Does anyone know the status of the UMPG? I have not noticed any traffic
>>concerning this subject and am curious as to its current status.
>
>Ditto.  I saw a lot of hype about it here about a month ago, and I'm eager to
>see it.  Anyone know anything about its progress?
>
Mea culpa, mea culpa.  The UMPG is definitely well stalled, mostly because
its choke point (me) was 1) having a contractor build a house, 2) working
50-60 hrs/week, 3) suffering mightily from this year's record crop of
oak and hickory pollen, and 4) taking 2 classes ...  At this point only
1) and 2) apply, but ...

Now, I do like to have a sense of self-importance, and I think I have a
lot to contribute by "editing" this thing, but I have come to realize that
editing does not mean swallowing up contributions and promising to sort
through them (even though a lot of magazine editors seem to conduct their
business in precisely this fashion).

Basically, I'm resource-rich but time-negative.  I would like very much to
contribute to the organizing, editing and shaping of the UMPG, but I just
can't handle, right now, the physical chores of sorting through mailing
lists, de-binhexing, editing, compiling, re-binhexing, etc., that make up
the very tedious and mundane component of this project.  I do have some
time for programming, testing, writing, etc., but not in combination with
the "real work," alas ...  I will probably be better off as a submitter
and copy editor than as a giant plug in the pipeline of progress.

If someone will volunteer to do the basic e-mail sorting and packaging work,
plus whatever else he/she feels inclined to do, I will package up the materials
that I have now and send them along by the most convenient route.

What we STILL need and have yet to have submitted are ARTICLES, by the way,
not programming examples.

Takers?

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