On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:41:38AM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote:
> Esteemed IGLU members,
>
> For the past month people have been discussing the state of our website. The
> good people of IGLU were suggesting improvements, writing alternative pages
> and complaining.
Well, that is too what I've heared. I've been sent an alarming mail
message from a person I think we can all trust... I therefore forward
it by his request:
> From: Eric S. Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Sun, Jan 23 2000 at 08:43:56AM -0500 (EST)
> Subject: The conspiracy documents
> To: Adi Stav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Good morning. I have received this anonymous alarming confession not too
> long ago. Please forward it to your LUG and warn them and everybody involved.
>
>
>> Hello, I'm an ex-webmaster of the Israeli LUG. I hope the following
>> will make it clearn why I'm not longer an acting webmaster.
>>
>> I actually became the LUG's webmaster in perfectly good faith. I
>> met with my predecessor, who gave me the password, a couple of
>> files he has been intending to add to the site, and three blank
>> envelopes only labeled with "1", "2" and "3" on the outside. The
>> first two things seemed reasonable but he completely refused to
>> give me any details on the contents or the purposs of the
>> envelopes. All he said was "Do not open them now. Wait until after
>> you've left here and are at home, and then open the one labelled
>> "1". ONLY the one labelled "1".
>>
>> This seemed strange to me, but I thought if it seemed so important
>> for him I might as well comply. So I went home and opened the "1"
>> envelope. Inside it I found a note saying: "You're the new
>> webmaster of the LUG. Now remember, the power of the LUG to harness
>> the individual IQ of its members in order to make complaints about
>> the website is nothing short of amazing. This is what you should
>> do: blaim all the problems with the site on your predecessor. All
>> of them. This should keep you apprently busy for about two
>> months. Once two months have passed, open the envelope labelled
>> "2". ONLY the envelope labelled "2".
>>
>> And so I did. I blaimed all the problems on my precedessor and as
>> soon as the two months have passed I opened number 2. Inside it
>> again I found a note, this time saying: "FUDing your predecessor
>> works no longer. This is time for a new strategy. For the next two
>> months, you shall involve yourself with complete rebuilding of the
>> site. Leave no stone unturned and no HTML tag unrewritten until
>> nothing of the old content remains. This way you can
>> "decommoditize" the LUG people's complaints. Saying you're
>> redesigning can keep them away for the next two months -- and once
>> you're done, open the envelope labelled "3". Not before."
>>
>> Again, so I did. By the time the two months have passed the site
>> got a complete redesign. It was true that no new content was added,
>> and the only old content still accessible was out of date (I lost a
>> couple of files in the work), but at least i DID something. It
>> was then the time to open the third envelope, but the note inside
>> it gave me no grand plans. It simply said "Prepare three
>> envelopes".
>
> - ESR
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