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From: schoff@PSI.COM ("Martin Lee Schoffstall")
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Subject: Re: How Serious are we about running quipu?
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Date: 11 Apr 90 12:52:57 GMT
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John,

nysernet/psi have a pilot whitepages service that has the "payrolls"
of over 40 organizations in it, including universities, commercial
organizations, and government agencies.  There are approaching 200,000
entries throughout the various DSA's which are all quipu based.

If you want to exercise it telnet/rlogin into wp.psi.com and login
as "fred".  There is both an ascii oriented and a X11 base user
agent to run there.

Marty
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 I guess these questions are directed to all those DSA managers out there.

 How serious are you about running quipu?

 Is it just something that you got for free compiled - it worked
 so you put a bit of data in and connected up - or are
 you a bit more serious about maintaining a proper directory. I.e.
 keeping all the information up to date and complete.

 I know George Michaelson at the University of Queensland (Australia)
 seems to have the entire payroll of the university loaded up.

 Here at Sydney University we are a bit unsure as to how far to go with
 it. Whether to suggest to the admin people they use it for maintaining
 their phone book, or just let things go along and let our data go slowly
 out of date.

 My personal thoughts are that if we are going to do this then me may
 as well do it properly, and each organization make some sort of 
 commitment in money/manpower to maintaining an uptodate complete
 directory.

 What are other peoples thoughts on this?

 	John McQueen
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