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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
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Subject: Re: BART: part 2
Summary: Let's be fair
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.011146.29931@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 14 Feb 91 01:11:46 GMT
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Feb12.181433.3661@math.lsa.umich.edu> brode@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode) writes:
>This is a re-post with clarifications of my original article "Bye Bye BART".
>At this point, I don't know whether I believe his innocence or not. Even
>taking the unusual circumstances into account, he was still using the
>archive beyond the posted limits. However, I'm not in a position where
>I'm able to ascertain his innocence or guilt so I will no longer pursue it.

I think that between his responses and Brian Reid's posting it seems
pretty unlikely that any malice was intended.  Of course you are upset
at losing your server -- we all are -- but having used VAXmail I can
vouch for the plausibility of Kaiser's and Reid's explanations.  Your
accusations have caused a lot of grief for Kaiser and DEC, and your
waffling about whether to accept their explanations is rubbing salt in a
wound that seems to have suffered enough.

>Please stop sending him mail.

I concur.  When I read your original posting I forwarded it to him with
the header "Is this true?" and I received a gracious reply and copies of
subsequent correspondence.  My conclusion is that Herr Kaiser did not
act with malice, and that he was not even overly negligent (a real guru
might have avoided the problem, but it does not appear to be a really
slovenly mistake).

Right now the problem is overly strict system administration at your end.

Bill
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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