From: ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux) Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 23:59:32 GMT
In article <1992Aug16.234935.14600@sol.UVic.CA> pmacdona@sanjuan (Peter MacDonald) writes:
>In article <1992Aug16.221736.9732@athena.mit.edu> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o) writes:
>
>I've got a great idea. Lets develop a modified mailing list that is split
>into 10 subgroups: linux-activists0 through linux-activists9. Each person
>could subscribe to any *one* of them that they like, but here is the catch.
>Each subscriber would be graded, between 0 and 9, after subscription, based
>upon the amount they have contributed to the Linux effort. And (Oh, I love
>this part), we could have a committee that would decide and revise that grade,
>ya. Linus, I assume, would get an automatic 9. But maybe the committee
>would decide that that was inappropriate. ;-)
>
>Now, whatever level a user subscribed to, he would only receive postings from
>users >= that grade. ie. subscribing to linux-activists1, would automatically
>filter out all the zero's (and are there ever a chestfull of them out there
>to filter).
Hey, I like this idea. I have one suggestion. People at level zero
who post would have their postings thrown into the bit bucket. :-) Just for
fun we could send a copy back to the poster so that they think that it was
really posted.
-Eric