AUUGN ridiculously late again

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From: Janet Jackson
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1992 07:19

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[I am posting this to aus.auug as well as sending it to auugn@munnari.oz.au.]

AUUGN vol 12 no 16 (Dec 1991) arrived on my desk today, 4 March 1992.
Among other things, it contains a preliminary announcement and call for
papers for the summer conferences, some of which have already been held,
a book club discount that has expired, and a President's report talking
about member benefits.

The Editorial apologises for the delay and talks about the difficulties of
getting promised articles.

Since I am the editor of YAUN* (WAUG's** much slimmer newsletter) this
inspires me to expound my philosophy on newsletter deadlines.

A newsletter, by definition, is meant to distribute to the members
*news* about the organisation's activities, especially upcoming ones.
There is no use in news if it is out-of-date.

My approach with YAUN is that it comes out on time, no matter what.  If
promised articles do not materialise in time that's too bad.  If the members
are not prepared to contribute to their newsletter, it will be thin, containing
WAUG news and information but no articles other than the one or two I may have
time to write or reprint.  Timely news is too important to the members to be
sacrificed in favour of articles.  Unfortunately I get the impression that
this has happened in the latest AUUGN.

Janet Jackson
<janet@cs.uwa.edu.au>
Department of Computer Science
The University of Western Australia

*Yet Another Unix Newsletter.
**Western Australian Unix systems Group.

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Subject: AUUGN ridiculously late again
Summary: If articles aren't there on time, let AUUGN be thin
Keywords: Deadlines! Deadlines!
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