On Apr 8, 2010, at 6:39 45PM, Michael Dillon wrote:
>> I guarantee you the Communications Committee is on the job. What's more,
>> they are doing a GREAT job - for no money and apparently no gratitude. It
>> is worse than thankless, no matter what they do they will be derided.
>> Filter someone and they get flamed. Leave someone allowed to post and they
>> get reamed. I'm shocked anyone would actually want the job.
>
> So why can't the Communications Committee do a little communicating.
> Sure it's thankless work if you do it in secret and in silence. But
> the occasional message to the list wouldn't hurt. People WOULD feel
> thankful if they see that the CC is making an attempt.
>
>> So, I propose a new rule: To flame the CC, you MUST have volunteered to be
>> on the CC.
>
> Right, so you are an unvolunteer on the CC. Why do we only hear from
> unvolunteers?
>
There are some benefits to them not acting too quickly -- I finally had enough
motivation to figure out what the bugs were in my "plonk" script...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
