At 01:41 AM 6/4/96 -0600, Travis Butler wrote:
On further thought, maybe a way to get MegaZone to update the
newsgroup on a more regular basis would be to challenge his position
or capability. Maybe start a group like alt.anime.creative.fast
and update it once a day. This action in itself will probabally
piss him off to the point where we'll either see r.a.a.c updated
daily or so, or he'll just stop altogether. I don't accually have
any real plans set up for doing this since it is just a thought.
On the other hand...
When you think about it...
I have. For many hours. When I've been bored. When I'm driving. During
2 finals weeks when he decided to finally put up the stories and I didn't
time to go a single story let alone 70 stories, and just decided to print
out a list of the titles and pick them up from the archive when I had time.
Why do some people always make a confrontation out of everything? Why
*should* we "piss him off"? Megazone is a *volunteer*. He isn't getting
He is the head and only ACTIVE volunteer. He is also otherwise very busy
and doesn't have much time. He has volunteered that seems to require
*at least* weekly attention, but has only time to attend it once a month
or so. He has had other people volunteer to help him with the group, but
seems to ignore them (I know of myself and one other person on this list
who have offered or suggested additional people). I personally would like
nothing more than a nice happy painless solution to the problem, but when
that doesn't work. What's left?
And please don't insinuate that I make a confrontation out of everything.
paid for this, and he's doing it in his spare time. I can't speak for the
poster, but in the last year or two, I've realized (much to my chagrin)
that I don't have the time to do everything I want to do -- or even
everything I *promised* to do; on my web sites, for example. Sometimes
things work out that way. We're all human. (Or... hmmm, on this list,
better make that "more-or-less human." <g>) How many of us have written
fanfics, gotten stuck in something else, and haven't been able to finish
them when we promised?
Agreed. I personally have not had enough time to do all that I would
have liked to, but I think that in a situation where I had people willing
to volunteer and help out, and people were counting on me, it would be a
definate good idea to either accept the help, or try to pass the torch on.
Sure, I'm concerned about the long droughts on RAAC, especially in the
last couple of months. But I'm willing to look at his situation with an
open mind, and I'm not about to go into vindictive flaming mode for
something I know d*mn well that I might end up doing in similar
circumstances. There is a problem, I'd say, and something needs to be
worked out to fix it -- but I don't think any of us have a right to flame
Megazone without knowing the circumstances. I personally would go
further; I wouldn't flame him without evidence of deliberate, vindictive
intent, and probably not even then.
Who's flaming? Your message here has been more of a flame on me than
I have flamed anyone anytime in the last 2 years or so (in fact, I
believe that I've posted here more in the last two weeks than I've posted
combined everywhere else in the last 2 years :). Please remember that
what I originally posted was just a thought.
Travis Butler
(The Professor, formerly of Myth and Magick!, Lawrence, KS;
tbutler@tfs.net, now from the Wandering Powerbook;
<http://www.tfs.net/personal/tbutler/>;
Mac page <http://www.tfs.net/business/tbutler/>)
Congratulations Travis, you are the first person to ever provoke me to
systematically go through a post and try to make rebuttle on everything
that I thought was wrong about it.
To everyone else: Please excuse any bad grammer, and please excuse me if
I used 'we' instead of 'I'. I have a bad habit of doing so when I'm typing.
--
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