Subj : Re: The Peanut Gallery trolls again
To : Nick Boel
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 15:12:59
-=> Nick Boel wrote to Bj}{rn Felten <=-
> Roll your eyes as much as you want, but instead of the usual response
> from the Peanut Gallery, you could inform the list keeper of any
> errors.
NB> Just to clarify for future reference..
NB> So any and all requests for change sent to the 'editor', who is
NB> technically the one that can edit any of the pages before they finalize
NB> a release of the newsletter, get ignored?
Yes. He's *very* busy, you know. Maintaining that newsletter is a very
demanding fulltime job and he MUST delegate such tasks to subordinates.
NB> If so, then one can ask are you an actual editor, or just a publisher?
He's neither. He launches a script (or likely a "batch file") which
takes the various pieces of boilerplate text (that never change) and
stitches them together into one chunk that is then auto-posted. This
takes approximately 8.4 seconds, and has to be done EVERY WEEK. I don't
know how he can manage such a workload.
