One Last Wish

[Ed Vielmetti]

In article <1991May13.212809.25299 at convex.com> tchrist at convex.COM (Tom Christiansen) writes:

   This is becoming too personal.  I'll say it again: I have no desire to be
   a moderator, I'd just like the community to practice sound judgment.

   If you really believe that it's good to post things better destined for
   alt.sourced.wanted and alt.sources.d into alt.sources, then we shall never
   agree on this matter.

Sigh.  For a while I combed through the vast swamp of usenet looking
for sources postings that weren't posted to alt.sources, tidied them
up ever so slightly, and reposted them to the alt.sources group in a
reasonable way.  In exchange for a little bit of bandwidth consumed,
the signal to noise ratio of alt.sources got much better.  (review the
contents of the alt.sources archive on wuarchive.wustl.edu to see the
results.)

The community tended to respond in kind, and seeing a sources group
that had sources in it the community tended to post sources to it.  

Unfortunately (I guess), my filters for finding errantly posted but
eminently useful sources postings are not all that good, and I had to
discontinue the service.  Besides, there was a lingering 5%
discontent with what I was doing, and answering hate mail is never
fun.   So I quit.

If you want sources in alt.sources, post sources.  More will follow.
Complaining or harrassing people will just create enemies and hate
mail.

-- 
Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc.  emv at msen.com

"(6) The Plan shall identify how agencies and departments can
collaborate to ... expand efforts to improve, document, and evaluate
unclassified public-domain software developed by federally-funded
researchers and other software, including federally-funded educational
and training software; "
			"High-Performance Computing Act of 1991, S. 272"