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- From: justin@hp750.ccs.uky.edu (Justin Sullivan)
- Subject: Re: Sumex is in need of a restucturing
- References: <1992Dec31.174208.25214@nmsu.edu>
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- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 05:15:49 GMT
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- maynard@leah.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley) writes:
-
- >If the archives ran on decent computers that could be configured to reflect
- >changes in subdirectory contents in the date published by 'ls -ltr' I would
- >be willing to live with a many-layer system, but given the way things now
- >work, I avoid mac.archive if I possibly can do so.
-
- >Just my opinion,
- >Maynard Handley
-
- Wel Mr. Handley.. You're opinion is greatly appreciated. The only beef I
- have is I wish you had told us in person sooner at
- comments@mac.archive.umich.edu.
-
- The bit about running on a decent computer is a very legitimate complaint.
- I agree, but there's nothing we can do. We're running off of some very
- kind fellow's workstation as it is. Since that machine is located in a
- building with very poor networking, he had to impose drastic connection
- restrictions because our archive traffic is flooding that subnet.
-
- Merit SUPPOSEDLY gave us official recognition and said they would support
- us, etc. They haven't. We need more disk space. Can't get it. We need a REAL
- machine to run on. Can't have one. We have a mail server, BART, that was
- developed at U-M. I don't know why we use it.. I wanted to use the ftpmail
- software. BART doesn't inform you of errors, doesn't let you tell it how
- many lines per chunk you want mailed to you, etc. It works, but it takes
- a lot of strained fingers to answer mail about people who send off requests
- to BART and never hear from it again.
-
- We never have had direct control over the way things are run. For instance,
- when we started running WUFTPd, we didn't even have the authority to change
- the messages. That was a problem.. We can't configure our host the way we
- want it. That's a REALLY big problem. With all this, I consider us lucky
- to be in 'business.' I really hope my colleagues don't lynch me for this.
- I've made this all clear to them before.. It's not our fault, though.
- I think we'll have to put the squeeze on someone at Merit if we want things
- to improve. We're operating off the goodness of many U-M people right now..
-
- Incidentally, all the newfiles have symbolic links to their various
- resting places in 00newfiles. That way, you won't have to CD all over hell
- to get what you want. I don't maintain these links myself.. Mike does (last
- time I heard anything about them), or maybe a script does nowadays..
-
-