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From: brode@math.lsa.umich.edu (Jon Brode)
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Subject: Re: BART: part 2
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Date: 14 Feb 91 16:38:20 GMT
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In article <1991Feb14.011146.29931@cs.dal.ca> bill%biomel@cs.dal.ca writes:
>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.

I accept Brian Reid's technical explanation without question. The only
thing I had my doubts about was Herr Kaiser's complete innocence. I am
not of the opinion that the technical difficulties excuse all of his
actions. However, my remaining doubts about Herr Kaiser are not worth
pursuing.

Besides, if you want to talk about rubbing salt in old wounds, why did
you post this after I told you that Hans and I have worked out our
differences?

>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).

So you're saying that it takes a guru to figure out that if you don't
get a response from the first 45 messages, you probably won't get a
response from the next 45? Now reconcile that with the posted archive
limit of 5 requests per day.

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

Not at all, we are a guest on that machine. We can use it as long as we
don't cause trouble. People use that machine to get work done. The archive
is just a public service, the University doesn't even support Atari machines.
(major m*c site)

Anyway, things are looking better in this regard as well. It appears
that the sys-admin's intention is to keep us down until we can come up
with a technical solution to the basic problem that's at the heart of
the matter: a weak quota system. The difficulty is that coming up with a
bullet-proof quota system is an insoluable problem at present. The trick
is convincing the sys-admin to let us go back up with a partial solution.
I think I can swing that, he's a reasonable guy.

Jon