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From: grahamt@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Graham S Thomas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bye Bye BART
Message-ID: <4484@syma.sussex.ac.uk>
Date: 12 Feb 91 14:49:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb11.054514.25449@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: SPRU, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, UK
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From article <1991Feb11.054514.25449@terminator.cc.umich.edu>, by jon@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Jon Brode):
> 
> Mr. Kaiser probably thought he was really clever when he figured out how
> to get around our quota system. Over the course of 4 days, he requested
> over 90 files totalling many megabytes. When this came to the attention of
> the atari.archive.umich.edu system administrator, he put an end to it.
> For good. 
> 

Mr. Kaiser's activities are to be deplored, that's for sure.

But is it not the also the case that the decision to close the service
completely just because of the activities of one abuser is an
over-reaction?

Now other people are being denied use of the service through no fault of
their own.  Was there no easy way to fix things so that Mr. Kaiser was
denied but not others?

I don't want to overreact here myself.  I appreciate that any access to
atari.archive is a privilege, and not a right.  The people who run the
service contribute major efforts, voluntarily as far as I know, and it's
up to them how they want to run it.  I hope that net users don't send
flames in the direction of umich.

But on behalf of the people who rely on the BART mail service, as I did
until fairly recently, could I ask that the decision be reconsidered?

In the meantime, if there are any UK users without FTP access who have
used BART and who want files (within the fairly tight limits of my quota
and the time restrictions of our scratch space), I'd be prepared to
fetch them here and then mail them on - provided it can be done quite
quickly, as I don't have time to go exploring on other people's behalf.

Graham
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