From: andre@sun.ac.za (ANDRE SKARZYNSKI) Subject: Re: Linux Standards (was: Stabilizing Linux) Date: 26 Aug 1992 05:40:08 GMT
In article <1992Aug23.235932.20056@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> ericy@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Eric Youngdale) writes:
>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
And this is a classic level zero! ;-)