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- From: andre@sun.ac.za (ANDRE SKARZYNSKI)
- Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux)
- Sender: news@ucthpx.uct.ac.za (UCT News Admin.)
- Message-ID: <andre.14@sun.ac.za>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 05:40:08 GMT
- References: <1992Aug16.221736.9732@athena.mit.edu> <1992Aug16.234935.14600@sol.UVic.CA> <1992Aug23.235932.20056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug23.235932.20056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) writes:
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- >In article <1992Aug16.234935.14600@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
- >>In article <1992Aug16.221736.9732@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (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).
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- > 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.
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- >-Eric
-
- And this is a classic level zero! ;-)
-