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From: scs@vax3.iti.org (Steve Simmons)
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Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted
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Date: 10 Jul 90 17:21:11 GMT
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karl_kleinpaste@cis.ohio-state.edu writes:

>honey@doom.ifs.umich.edu writes:
>   but what happens, karl, when you move on to that high-paying silicon
>   valley job, leaving confusion and turmoil behind?

>You make the very poor assumption, Peter, that my mail, news, and
>nameserver configurations exist in state which would cause confusion
>or turmoil among the rest of the staff if I left.

While OSUs commmitment to unix support is clearly more consistant
than UofMs, Peter is correct in noting a single point of failure is
not a good way of doing things.  A2 has been thru several cycles of
feast and famine, and those cycles stopped only when we went to
multiple sources of support.  Karls setups may be the best in the
world, but one day OSU may officially decide not to do that any more,
and turn the key.  Anti-social?  Sure.  Not likely in the near future?
Your guess is better than mine.  Disasterous when it happens?  Damn
betcha.