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From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
Subject: Re: Million dollars a year for COMP.ARCHIVES?
Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu (aka NELSON@CLUTX.BITNET)
Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY
Date: 22 Jun 91 21:51:00
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In-Reply-To: bajan@cs.mcgill.ca's message of 22 Jun 91 20:15:33 GMT
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	<1991Jun22.201533.25058@cs.mcgill.ca>
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In article <1991Jun22.201533.25058@cs.mcgill.ca> bajan@cs.mcgill.ca (Alan Emtage) writes:

   (a) The anonymous directory is usually maintained by one of the sysadmins
   of the facility on his/her own time and on their own volition. I was a
   sysadmin for long enough to understand that the maintenance gets done
   when other matters are not pressing... ie, seldom.

Yup.  Go look in grape.ecs.clarkson.edu's incoming directory.  :(

   (b) Often there is no commitment from "management" to the archive. This
   is especially true of educational institutions where the archive is
   tolerated as a pet project of the sysadmin mentioned above. If this
   person leaves, the archive can very rapidly fall into disrepair.

See my .sig.  :(  Hopefully that won't happen at Clarkson...

--
--russ <nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu> I'm proud to be a humble Quaker.
I am leaving the employ of Clarkson as of June 30.  Hopefully this email
address will remain.  If it doesn't, use nelson@gnu.ai.mit.edu.
