rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu (Bob Greene) (11/17/90)
Archive-name: sun-spots/16-Nov-90 Original-posting-by: rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu (Bob Greene) Original-subject: Moderator's Notes (Nov 16 1990) Archive-site: titan.rice.edu [128.42.1.30] Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In order to try to remedy the continued poor response time and backlog that Sunspots has been encountering over the last six months, I have made a few changes. The Usenet news group "comp.sys.sun" will now be posted from the host brchs1.bnr.ca instead of titan.rice.edu as before. This makes the files I have to play with local instead of remote and frees me to speedily process incoming requests. Note that *all* of the addresses stay the same: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu Add/Drop : sun-spots-requests@rice.edu Moderator : rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu Any questions regarding Sunspots should be addressed to one of the addresses above, not root@rice.edu or root@brchs1.bnr.ca - these System administrators are being nice enough to let Sunspots use their machines - don't make them forward mail to me. The backissue archives and source archives will still be maintained on titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30). However, due to the remote nature (as I mentioned above), updates announced in Sunspots (comp.sys.sun) may not be immediately available - please allow 24-48 hours before you mail to me asking where they are (I do sometimes forget to move things there, so if you don't see them at that point send me a reminder :)). These changes should improve Sunspots response time. I hope to restore the turn around to the point it was at early this year within the next week or so. Finally, just a few off the cuff remarks. First, a big thank-you to a Sun employee in the Dallas area who wishes to remain nameless who put up with my strange hours and all sorts of inconveniences in order to provide me with Internet connectivity during these first few months in a new city. Without his help, what has been a slow period for Sunspots would have been a totally dead period for Sunspots. And not to let Sun go away totally unscathed - I have to admit I was shocked and appalled to find that Sun Microsystems has now adopted an "official policy" of not allowing posting to Sunspots by Sun employees. I have not yet begun to grapple with this issue, but I feel that it should be dealt with - the input of Sun employees was one of the things that made this an attractive avenue for posing questions. Bob Greene Sunspots (comp.sys.sun) Moderator rgreene@ricecsvm.rice.edu