leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) (10/06/90)
In article <EMV.90Oct5131245@josephus.math.lsa.umich.edu> emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: >I suggest that the national SUG spend some money to ensure that the >moderation of comp.sys.sun is done in a timely fashion. --Ed Ed, you're brilliant. I second the idea. I'll also see to it that our University's representative at the next Sun Users Group brings up the issue with the appropriate people and that the officers of our SLUG (ROCSLUG) push the issue with the national group. -- Scott Leadley - leadley@cc.rochester.edu
pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu (Paul Graham) (10/08/90)
leadley@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Scott Leadley) writes: |emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) writes: |>I suggest that the national SUG spend some money to ensure that the |>moderation of comp.sys.sun is done in a timely fashion. --Ed | | . . . I second the idea. . . . i don't much like this idea. when greene (the current moderator) was discussing the developing difficulties he indicated that rice thought it was becoming too much of a time sink and they didn't want to pay for it. making the group/list unmoderated was one idea and dividing the work up among several people was another (i prefer the latter). i think the real problem is that there is no effective scheme for handing the job off to another person. now sug funding a part of someone's time could help in that if things stop working they just fund someone else but i'd rather see the process distributed to several other sites and handled by people who can get their management to agree that this is a valuable resource and thus deserving of some time. i think it would also help if it wasn't done by a student but rather a full-time system person who is likely to have access to the required resources for some time. i'd also like to see the archives moved to uunet but that's somewhat peripheral. to sum up i think the answer is redundancy. share the task around so it doesn't become dependent on one person. put it in the hands of folks who are unlikely to move and who have the resources. if sug wants to co-ordinate this process that seems reasonable but direct compensation to some entity doesn't seem sufficient to me since it doesn't address the real problems*. *as well as the hand-off failure we also have the motivation for hand-off. the job takes up too much of a single person's time. -- pjg@acsu.buffalo.edu / rutgers!ub!pjg / pjg@ubvms opinions found above are mine unless marked otherwise.