At 12:16 AM 11/7/2004, Russ Allbery wrote:
>In news.groups, Mike Cox <mikecoxlinux@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > I'm pretty much done with this anyway. It is a waste of time putting in
> > anymore effort since no one seems to want it.
>
>Well, the problem from my perspective is that a lot of time and energy is
>being spent on worrying about how to propose something or what possible
>problems there might be with the group and no one (and I'm not asking you
>to do this -- I understand very well where you're coming from and am
>extremely sympathetic) has not taken the simple first step of just asking
>Marc what the status of the groups are.
>
>If Marc was happy with them being turned into real Big Eight groups and
>the technical issues of the gatewaying were worked out with Marco or
>someone else, I think everything would fall in place very simply. You'd
>get a newsgroup, you wouldn't have to care about the gateway, and we'd be
>down to arguing about which mailing lists should be gated.
>
>As is, this thread is currently full of speculation about lots of things
>that may or may not be problems and would be cleared up by getting all the
>involved parties in the discussion. And everyone seems to be wanting you
>to do this, which I think is a little unfair since the gateways aren't
>even what you're worried about in the first place and you'd just have to
>play telephone.
>
>I really need to *not* be volunteering to do this, since I have a dozen
>other things that I've already promised other people to work on, but it's
>really frustrating that no one else is doing it either.
I'll volunteer. This shouldn't be ThAT hard to fix.