RE: [ga] THIS FRIDAY end the nomination's time...

[R.Gaetano@iaea.org]

Mark Langston wrote:
> 
> For the record, I submitted a nomination yesterday 
> (12/1/1999) at around
> 1000 PST (1800UTC).  To the best of my knowledge, it has 
> still not shown
> up on the page.
> 

Incidentally, looking at
http://www.dnso.org/clubpublic/ga-nominations/Archives/msg00005.html I see
"11:13:42 -0800 (=PST)", which is 19:13:42 UTC/GMT and 20:13:42 CET.
It showed up this morning, European time, which is pretty good considering
that in the meantime it was night over here. In fact, when I wrote the
message you answered to, it was probably already updated: I just realized
after having sent the message that I was looking at an old version, cached
in the system. A reload brought up the good news.


> I must therefore conclude that the nominations are being 
> added by hand,


Of course they do.
You cannot just automatically post on the web site whatever arrives at a
certain E-Mail address, including potential spam messages or worse.


> and whoever is responsible for that is shirking that responsibility.
> 

Shirking?!?
Sometimes I wish that people could use terms comprehensible to the average
non-native-English reader.
(Unless the purpose is more to create an effect than to be understood)


> It's very important that nominations show up in a timely manner.  They
> aren't.  
> 

What if the nominator sends a simple message to the GA, announcing that
he/she has E-Mailed the nomination? Joop did it, for instance.
Sometimes there are such simple solutions!


> Once again, the procedure is broken, and once again, I'm 
> going to point
> it out.  This is the nth time I've made noises about bad 
> procedure.  How
> much longer do we have to suffer through bad procedure before 
> it finally
> sinks in that bad procedure presents a bad image, regardless 
> of what is
> actually going on?

Now I understand ;>).
Thank you for stating in plain English that your purpose is "[to make]
noises about bad procedure" "regardless of what is actually going on".

Regards
Roberto