Stephan_Schwab@p5.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org (Stephan Schwab) (06/05/91)
TC> > JG: Who is the moderator of the WINDOWS.PROG echo anyway? TC> TC> It's supposed to be Stephen Schwab, 2:?/?. Stephen are your around? Yes, I'm here and alive. I prefered to write netmail to Paul King, because his "problem" with WINDOWS.PROG and comp.windows.ms.programmer seems to be of no interest to the participants of this echo/newsgroup. I think that no one in UseNet is interested in the offer of a FidoNet BBS. Whether this single BBS is offering two or one echo for the single topic Windows programming, shouldn't be of any value for people elsewhere in the world. I hoped to keep this problem in netmail, but it seems that some people want to discuss it public. I do not think that this is the right way. The most participants of this echo haven't posted any comment about gating - especially participants from UseNet were discussing on-topic (!). A few month before we decided to connect WINDOWS.PROG and UseNets comp.windows.ms.programmer we watched comp.windows.ms.programmer carefully. There were no messages from FidoNet anywhere. Therefore I think that users of Paul Kings BBS can't write to this newsgroup. And we got the impression that nobody else is already gating. TC> If he is no longer around, I am willing to take the job. I'm sure most TC> of you know me from the WINDOWS conference. Moderating this one would be TC> a 'piece of cake' compared to the great WINDOWS monster <GRIN>. Thank your for your help and offer, but I don't think it is neccessary. Except two/three FidoNet sysops all participants are satisfied with the contents of this echo/newsgroup. There were fairly no reasons to write moderator mail. I do hope that this will be the case in the future again. A final note to all participants from FidoNet: Please keep your discussion on-topic. Nobody in UseNet cares about FidoNet specific stuff. If people in FidoNet can't stop discussing about the organisation of FidoNet and local BBS, the EXPORT to UseNet has to be stoped. But this "solution" wouldn't be the right one and many people in FidoNet will be disappointed, because they are thinking that the import AND export is a valuable input to this conference. Any comments regarding this mail or the topic of this mail should be send via Netmail to me. I will summarise and post in about four weeks. Regards Stephan Schwab Moderator of WINDOWS.PROG, WINDOWS.PROG.GER
kentfo@polari.UUCP (Kent Forschmiedt) (06/07/91)
In article <229835590@p5.f36.n245.z2.fidonet.org> Stephan_Schwab%p5.f36.n245.z2@hippo.dfv.rwth-aachen.de (Stephan Schwab) writes: >I hoped to keep this problem in netmail, but it seems that some people want to >discuss it public. I do not think that this is the right way. The most >participants of this echo haven't posted any comment about gating - especially >participants from UseNet were discussing on-topic (!). I am a usenet participant ans sysadmin. I say, "Stop it." -- Kent Forschmiedt ... kentfo@polari ... uw-beaver!sumax!polari!kentfo