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Tuesday, November
22, 2005
The days just keep being eaten by locusts. I continue to work on learning
podcasting. And there's always more mail. Do see the
new phishing warnings.
For your amusement:RMS accosted by UN
security for wearing a tin-foil hat.
No permalink (odd, Perens should know better); it's
currently at the
top:
http://perens.sourcelabs.com/
Roland Dobbins
=============== On Mail:
I get over a hundred non-spam emails a day. When we have a hot topic that
can double. Because I only print those I find interesting or relevant, most
of them languish, often unacknowledged. Given the time I have available
there's little I can do about that. If we were to double the
number of subscribers I could delegate some of
the mail to a reader, but that would also require some changes in headers
and rules so that private and personal mail would never be forwarded (I
don't give anyone access to my mail and wouldn't even if we do change to
some kind of reader system). If we had a system with explicit headers (OK
FOR READER or something like that) it would save some time, but I fear not a
lot, because one of the toughest jobs I have is deciding which of many
messages on the same subject I ought to print and answer. Most of my mail is
well done and thoughtful, probably because I don't bother to read anything
that is merely trivial or flames, and seldom print any of that (except as
horrible examples).
So: if you wrote me on a popular subject and saw another
letter much like it, that's why. I prefer to publish entire letters rather
than snippets (well, I will remove asides and irrelevancies), and given my
time limits, letters that need little editing are preferable to those that I
have to pound into shape. And if I find a good letter on a subject, I may
get it up before seeing a better one. In which case I can either put up
both, leaving the overlap and redundancy; edit the second one, which is
usually not a good thing to do; or just figure the first one is Good Enough.
The latter course it the more usual. So if you thought you had a good
contribution and saw one that wasn't as good, that's probably what happened.
Apologies, but there is little I can do about it. And, of
course, I look at subscriber mail first, then
to reliable contributors whose names I recognize, and finally to the general
mail. And some days I don't have a lot of time for the last category, and
have to read that in big batches, by which time it may not longer be
relevant. This site takes a lot of work. I fear it is getting
to the point where I will need more subscribers so that I can pay one of the
Associates to handle some of the details. Be assured, I will never send mail
off to anyone else to read unless it is clearly marked as OK FOR READER.
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