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- From: anderson@macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
- Subject: Drive drive
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.194204.15246@macc.wisc.edu>
- Followup-To: comp.sys.next.misc
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- Organization: Madison Academic Computing Center, UW-Madison
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 93 19:42:04 GMT
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- Note_1: Followups directed to comp.sys.next.misc, to keep
- subsequent discussion in one place. Sorry for the massive
- cross-posting, wanted to reach the maximum readership.
-
- Note_2: An earlier posting about this already appeared in
- comp.sys.next.misc. This is a restatement and expansion of
- that.
-
- Background: Several people have suggested solving the
- archive server space crunch by asking users to kick in money
- to purchase additional drives for sonata and orst. I've
- volunteered to collect pledges and to contact Purdue and
- Oregon State to see what they think of the idea. I'll do
- that at the beginning of next week. Five people pledged
- money in the first hour, six counting me. The amounts so
- far are like $10-$20 for each server site.
-
- Respondents so far think it's a cool idea and are making
- other useful suggestions too.
-
- I'll also be contacting vendors to see if they can make us a
- special deal, if things develop to the point when it looks
- like it might work.
-
- I'm not collecting money (not yet, anyway), so don't send
- any. If you're interested in this, just send me email
- (rather than posting, I might miss it) with the amount of
- your pledge. If you're a developer who has or intends to
- have your software on these servers, please indicate your
- product names as well.
-
- Although this seems to be an idea whose time has come,
- please be aware that the universities involved might not be
- as enthusiastic about it as we are. There are always
- bureaucracies, policy implications, and hidden costs to be
- involved in such enterprises, as well I know, having worked
- at universities for 40 years.
-
- But don't let those things stop you from offering. One
- thing: please don't make a pledge unless you mean it. In
- the interest of not getting myself overloaded, I will send
- you a simple ACK to say I got your message.
-
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