crum%lipari.usc.edu@oberon.usc.edu (Gary L. Crum) (04/27/89)
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 ]]