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- Submitted-by: jsq@tic.com (John S. Quarterman)
-
- The previous USENIX funding for most standards activities expired on
- Halloween (see <106937@uunet.UU.NET>). The WG15 reports were funded as
- requested back in September. The snitch report editor has apparently
- made an arrangement for the interim until the next board meeting in
- January. Efforts are being made to produce proposals for funding other
- USENIX standards activities. However, since the USENIX board has
- expressed philosophical objection to funding moderation of a newsgroup,
- it is very unlikely that there will ever be support from them for
- comp.std.unix.
-
- For the moment, I have chosen to continue as moderator while seeking
- support from other quarters. Preliminary thanks to those who are
- already looking into it.
-
- If no funding materializes, I simply cannot afford to continue
- taking adequate time to moderate the newsgroup properly, and
- we will have to consider opening nominations for a volunteer
- moderator and voting on it by the usual USENET procedures.
-
- I strongly recommend keeping comp.std.unix moderated, because:
- 1) The original request for the newsgroup, from IEEE 1003 back
- in 1985 (the first article was posted 25 June 1985), made it
- clear that most standards participants would only read a
- moderated newsgroup.
- 2) Comparing 1989 (unfunded) to 1990 (funded), the increased signal
- to noise ratio and the increased number of interesting postings
- (partly attributable also to the snitch reports, themselves due
- to funding of editing) supports the original request.
- 3) See comp.unix.wizards for what is likely to happen to an
- unmoderated comp.std.unix.
-
- Meanwhile, there will be a guest moderator, John B. Chambers,
- while I am overseas 6-27 November. Please send submissions
- to the usual address, i.e., std-unix@uunet.uu.net.
-
- John S. Quarterman, moderator, comp.std.unix and std-unix@uunet.uu.net
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- Volume-Number: Volume 22, Number 19
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