Rich has been active on the Usenet for many years; during his multiyear tenure as moderator of comp.sources.unix he set the defacto standards for Usenet source distribution still in use. He also bears responsibility for InterNetNews, one of the most virulent NNTP implementations of Usenet. More importantly, he was twice elected editor-in-chief of his college newspaper, The Tech, but both times left school rather than serve out his term. Rich wrote the Snoozenet chapter.