🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <qumybulotif.fsf@cyclone.Stanford.EDU>,
   Russ Allbery <rra@cs.stanford.edu> wrote:

>However, saying that the attitude exhibited by people like Yronwode is
>largely responsible for the disappearance of services like Fletcher Mattox's
>is *not* BS, and I think Fletcher's message made it reasonable clear that
>complaints about the gateway were a large part of what made it not fun any
>more.
>
>Regardless of what kind of spin you want to put on this, Cat Yronwode will
>be remembered as the person who provided the last straw that resulted in the
>closing of a gateway that was very popular and widely used.  And as far as
>I'm concerned, the reputation she'll get from that is well deserved.

Many people who did provide valuable volunteer services to Usenet in the past
got burned out and left not because of some giant challenges or some monstrous
net.villains threatening them - rather because of constant lack of ANY
gratitude and constant nagging of lesser creatures. 

"The straw that broke the back of the camel" indeed.