Doug Werth wrote:
>
> While Jeff is at it maybe he can read each and every posting and
> determine whether or not it is relevent to this list. For the ones he is
> unsure about we can openly debate their marginal benefit. [snip]

Let me clarify something here... I'm not "moderating" the list in the
traditional sense of the word.  There was a "MAC IS S**T" cross-posted
flamefest going on in comp.sys.hp.mpe that was by definition being echoed
to this list.  It was *really* bad back before HPWorld '96 but settled
down until last week.  I have been reviewing ONLY incoming posts from
the newsgroup [comp.sys.hp.mpe] and discarding ONLY those crossposts.
I don't have time to really "moderate" - I was just filtering out the
expletive-filled flamefest fallout.

> Come on people, hardware vendors and software developers put the delete
> key there for a reason. Lets use it. The reason that we want Jeff to
> weed out certain postings is that we don't have time to do it ourselves.
> Why do we think Jeff has that kind of time? (When I receive a $20
> monthly subscription fee for Jeff's services I will understand why.)

Now there's an idea :-)

Seriously though... many people have expressed interest in an "executive
summary" of key points brought out here, or at least a filtered subset
of really relevant postings.  This is becoming almost do-able as a
separate list (likely a moderated digest) but I'm not ready to commit to
the time [yet].  Listserv can support a "panel" of moderators and dish
out the load in round-robin fashion if there are others willing to devote
some time and effort.  Any volunteers should contact me directly.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>