> That's the problem in a nutshell. Everyone's waiting for
 > someone else to do something.
 >
 > The unfortunate thing is that the number of "someone elses"
 > is so small that there's not a lot going to be done.
 >
 > A couple of recent examples:
 >
 > (1) Request for Opus foreign language translators. Result:
 > not one single person responded.
 > (2) Request for modem info. Result: big result here folks,
 > what was it? Four responses.
 
Trev --
 
Given that the feed of echomail is getting more and more erratic, may I make 
a suggestion?  I'm seeing people respond to this saying they responded; 
obviously the replies didn't make it back to you.
 
Perhaps some kind of brief periodic posting would help.  If you could post a 
weekly "wish list" outlining your pressing needs, with a quick summary of the 
responses you already had in hand (i.e. list of modems and/or contributors 
for #2 above), then anyone who replied to you and didn't see their name on 
the ack list would know that gremlins ate their reply, and could send it 
again, perhaps via a different path.
 
PITA, yes, but it would reassure people that Opus is still being worked on, 
that contributions are welcome, and that you still need whatever it is you 
had asked for. (People might assume that since you didn't ask again, your 
deadline had passed.)  And you might catch new contributors who missed the 
previous appeal.
 
Modem stuff to follow under separate cover.
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