cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20041102214014.GA54727 at hub.freebsd.org>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 02:29:38PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Friday 29 October 2004 07:48 pm, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> > I made 3-4 requestss, each one had an ACK that said, "sorry, right
>> > on it!"
>> >
>> > It's just not acceptable.
>> 
>> Are you volunteering to be an re@ secretary ala wilko@?
>
>Why does every group now need a secretary?  Maybe we just need more
>members on RE@ that are very active.

Having a member of a group act as secretary is an extremely widespread
practice because it works so well.

For one thing it helps bring about overview of the activities so
you can see if one particular issue or maybe one particular person
wastes a lot of time with frequent and unecessary protests, objections
or just general complaining.

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