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- Submitted-by: pc@hillside.co.uk (Peter Collinson)
-
- The end of an era in snitch reporting is at hand. Jeff Haemer is
- laying aside his quill as USENIX Standards Watchdog report editor and
- taking to a more paternal role for a time. He was tired of three small
- girls inquiring who the stranger was at the dinner table.
-
- Jeff has edited the Standards Watchdog reports for two years now. As
- many of us know from personal experience he was an extremely `gentle'
- editor, helping us say what we meant to say instead of what we had
- written. His editorials on standards were always well tempered and
- insightful, pulling together the varied threads of snitch reports and
- presenting the information as a more coherent picture.
-
- Jeff was responsible for building the USENIX Standards Watchdog
- Committee into an influential, bustling, nationally-recognized
- organization. The reports in ;login are undoubtedly popular inside
- the Standards community and out. We have Jeff to thank for pushing
- things in this direction, in finding snitches and making their reports
- available to the wider audience.
-
- To do this, he used his vacation. There are four weeks of IEEE POSIX
- standards meetings every year. Think about it a little, folks.
-
- Jeff was properly thanked by his friends and snitches at the Snitch
- dinner during the recent IEEE POSIX working group. USENIX thanks Jeff
- for all the hard work and time he has given as editor, and wishes him
- well in his endeavours. I personally would like to thank Jeff very
- publically for all the help he has given me during our short
- acquaintance.
-
- We welcome Stephe Walli in his place. Stephe has just attended his
- sixth IEEE Posix meeting; his first as snitch editor. He seemed to
- spend most of his time writing names down, so we will expect some good
- reports for ;login and the network. I also managed to twist his arm
- to help me write many of the paragraphs above.
-
- We would both welcome suggestions and ideas about how to present the
- snitch information. Stephe's email address is:
- speaker!stephe@mks.com or uunet!watmath!mks!speaker!stephe.
-
- Mine is: pc@hillside.co.uk, if in doubt fire this first at uunet.
-
- Peter Collinson
- Usenix Standards Liaison
-
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- Volume-Number: Volume 23, Number 57
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