discuss: status report author checkup
Subject:
Re: status report author checkup
From:
Hank Dietz ####@####.####
Date:
10 Aug 2005 10:55:29 -0000
Message-Id: <20050810065526.dlbqp7a2o4ks0k40@mail.engr.uky.edu>
For what it's worth, I'm the author of the very old Parallel
Processing HOWTO, which I have been trying to upgrade into the
new Parallel Processing Guide. I also am a Professor at UK,
so it isn't shocking that the update has been going slower
than hoped given that it is done in my "copius spare time."
In any case, the volume of email involving TLDP issues that
I don't care about makes me pretty slow to respond to any
requests -- pretty much the same point David was making....
Perhaps it would be appropriate to move a lot of this volume
to a wiki or other non-email medium, reserving email for the
critical author contacts...?
Quoting David Lawyer ####@####.####
>> That leaves me with a list of nearly 340 authors, to whom 132 mails
>> bounced. The others didn't answer (yet). In other words: a good half of
>> our authors didn't reply. For now, I'll give them credit because of the
>> holiday season. I'll keep you posted on this.
...
> The half that didn't reply: This doesn't mean that these people have
> read the email. Perhaps half of this half didn't even read the email
> and most of these didn't even read the heading. What happens to many
> is that they become overwhelmed by email and just don't look at much
> of it. They could have mail lying around a year or two old which they
> haven't had time to look at. Something like this is happening to me.
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