Moderator has awoken from slumber
Jiro Nakamura
It's seem that Evan has awoken from his slumber and started cancelling
all of my messages. Chances are that he won't see this message unless
someone e-mails it to him.
I'm glad that Evan has decided to do his job. I certainly didn't want
to become moderator of RAE. I just wanted to get the group going again.
There was a *huge* response (almost 99.99% positive) to my posts.
I hope that Evan begins posting the stuff that people have sent him.
Good luck everyone!
- Jiro
ps. Personally I'm angry that Evan didn't bother to even e-mail me. Instead
he forged cancellation messages on my articles. Sigh, I'm not one to talk
about forgeries ;-), but still he could've answered my many e-mails before
this whole thing happened.
pps. For the other folks, I'll be retiring for now. I hope that Evan
takes his job seriously or passes the baton onto one of the many other
willing people. If we don't see posts again for many months, then
I may return (no promises!)
--
Jiro Nakamura ji...@shaman.com
The Shaman Group +1 607 277-1440 Voice/Fax/Data
Evan Leibovitch
I guess that the thing I misjudged most when I first offered to
moderate a newsgroup, was not the quality of the submissions (has been
dropping), nor the demands on my time (increasing). It's the mental age
of some of the readers.
One, in specific, noticing that I had not been putting many stories out
for a while, took it upon himself to forge moderation on some articles.
Understanding the great frustration that some of you must experience at
not getting a regular hit of smut, it would have been almost tolerated.
However, our pea-brained net.vigilante decided to break the ice by
RE-posting previous articles -- something that was expressly
forbidden in the charter that started this group in the first place,
and is the main reason it's moderated.
It is NOT the purpose of rec.arts.erotica to re-post stories every
September when a pile of newbies gets access to Usenet for the first
time. There have been problems getting sites to archive the group or
gateway it into mailing lists. While I will do my best to help set up
and publicize these functions, they are beyond the specific scope of the
group.
>ps. Personally I'm angry that Evan didn't bother to even e-mail me.
That one brought on a good laugh.
>Instead he forged cancellation messages on my articles.
That one brought on a bigger laugh. I didn't forge a thing, fella.
I cancelled messages which were improperly posted. Unlike you, however,
I was not only justified in what I did, but totally within proper net
etiquette in doing so. Can you say the same thing?
>still he could've answered my many e-mails before
>this whole thing happened.
I got no mail from you, fella. Just whining in public, most of which was
too juvenile to deserve a response. The fact you have so much support in
your actions speaks volumes about what's been happening to Usenet over
the past few years.
>I hope that Evan takes his job seriously
Look, shit-for-brains, I take my JOB very seriously. My JOB involves
earning money to put bread on the table for a family.
This is NOT a job, it's a HOBBY, and it will continue to be nothing
more than that until you want to start paying me to do it.
Some of us have lives. Maybe you'll get one someday, too.
What I do on Usenet comes *below* family problems and major business
projects. If Usenet comes above those things on *your* priority list,
fella, you've got some real problems.
I've now been doing this for quite a while. There have been *two* blips
(including the present one) where I've been too occupied to to the best
job I can in this. The present blip will likely continue for aanother
month, as we close a house and move across town, but I'll do the best
that I can.
If you can keep your poor little hormones down long enough, things'll be
back to a steady flow Real Soon Now. On the other hand, if there are
other volunteers who can guarantee you'll have the time and net access
to do this for another few years, and don't mind the idea of having to
follow the group's charter, while placating a small hoard of weenies who
think the Brady Bunch story is Really Neat Stuff, well, then maybe this
is indeed the place for you instead of me.
--
Evan Leibovitch, Sound Software, located in beautiful Brampton, Ontario
ev...@telly.on.ca / uunet!attcan!telly!evan / (416) 452-0504
I've had enough of Jimmy Swaggart and that hornier-than-thou attitude of his.