pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) (05/03/91)
Submitted-by: pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson) The end of an era in snitch reporting is at hand. Jeff Haemer is laying aside his quill as USENIX Standards Watchdog report editor and taking to a more paternal role for a time. He was tired of three small girls inquiring who the stranger was at the dinner table. Jeff has edited the Standards Watchdog reports for two years now. As many of us know from personal experience he was an extremely `gentle' editor, helping us say what we meant to say instead of what we had written. His editorials on standards were always well tempered and insightful, pulling together the varied threads of snitch reports and presenting the information as a more coherent picture. Jeff was responsible for building the USENIX Standards Watchdog Committee into an influential, bustling, nationally-recognized organization. The reports in ;login are undoubtedly popular inside the Standards community and out. We have Jeff to thank for pushing things in this direction, in finding snitches and making their reports available to the wider audience. To do this, he used his vacation. There are four weeks of IEEE POSIX standards meetings every year. Think about it a little, folks. Jeff was properly thanked by his friends and snitches at the Snitch dinner during the recent IEEE POSIX working group. USENIX thanks Jeff for all the hard work and time he has given as editor, and wishes him well in his endeavours. I personally would like to thank Jeff very publically for all the help he has given me during our short acquaintance. We welcome Stephe Walli in his place. Stephe has just attended his sixth IEEE Posix meeting; his first as snitch editor. He seemed to spend most of his time writing names down, so we will expect some good reports for ;login and the network. I also managed to twist his arm to help me write many of the paragraphs above. We would both welcome suggestions and ideas about how to present the snitch information. Stephe's email address is: speaker!stephe@mks.com or uunet!watmath!mks!speaker!stephe. Mine is: pc@hillside.co.uk, if in doubt fire this first at uunet. Peter Collinson Usenix Standards Liaison Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 57