Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84 exptools; site ihdev.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv From: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (ron vaughn) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Is anyone else offended..... Message-ID: <268@ihdev.UUCP> Date: Sat, 6-Jul-85 10:48:54 EDT Article-I.D.: ihdev.268 Posted: Sat Jul 6 10:48:54 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 7-Jul-85 06:08:02 EDT References: <266@timeinc.UUCP> <1106@mnetor.UUCP> Reply-To: rjv@ihdev.UUCP (55224-R. J. Vaughn) Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 24 Keywords: SA, crock of shit Summary: In article <1106@mnetor.UUCP> clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis) writes: > >Netnews is a public service, brought to most free by SA's that put in >long hours of unpaid overtime to keep the whole thing from falling >apart and companies that pay the bills. We do it primarily for the >technical material and partially for mail access to the world, and >sometimes for some light entertainment. wake up. if a lot of SAs put in "long ours of unpaid overtime" etc. etc. they are just being stupid, or your are simply trying to make people think your average SA does more than (s)he does. at the sites i've read the net at, the entire show was automated. the SA did NOTHING, the software handled it all, creating new groups, cleaning up after itself, auto-archiving etc. etc. if your machine isn't doing that, quite bitching, get (write) some better software. i realize there are some dedicated people out there who do put in the long hours etc., but don't give everyone the impression their SA is sitting around hand feeding news into the machine or something. that's a crock of shit. "i'm shocked, SHOCKED, that there is gambling going on here" ron vaughn ...!ihnp4!ihdev!rjv