NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/os/linux/8882

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From: [e-mail] (Eric Youngdale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux)
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Date: 23 Aug 92 23:59:32 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
>
>I've got a great idea.  Lets develop a modified mailing list that is split
>into 10 subgroups: linux-activists0 through linux-activists9.  Each person
>could subscribe to any *one* of them that they like, but here is the catch.
>Each subscriber would be graded, between 0 and 9, after subscription, based
>upon the amount they have contributed to the Linux effort.  And (Oh, I love
>this part), we could have a committee that would decide and revise that grade,
>ya.  Linus, I assume, would get an automatic 9.   But maybe the committee
>would decide that that was inappropriate. ;-)
>
>Now, whatever level a user subscribed to, he would only receive postings from
>users >= that grade.  ie. subscribing to linux-activists1, would automatically
>filter out all the zero's (and are there ever a chestfull of them out there
>to filter).

    Hey, I like this idea.  I have one suggestion.  People at level zero
who post would have their postings thrown into the bit bucket.  :-)  Just for
fun we could send a copy back to the poster so that they think that it was
really posted.

-Eric