news quench?, suggestion for times when moderator is absent
Gary L. Crum
crum%lipari.usc.edu at oberon.usc.edu
Thu Apr 27 18:21:00 AEST 1989
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 ]]
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