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From: weiner@terminator.cc.umich.edu (Jeff Weiner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: BART: part 2
Summary: Wake up, you're missing something big!
Keywords: bart atari.archive the pope
Message-ID: <1991Feb16.154702.20206@terminator.cc.umich.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 91 15:47:02 GMT
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In article <750107@hpsad.HP.COM> smithj@hpsad.HP.COM (Jim Smith) writes:
>>Right now the problem is overly strict system administration at your end.
>
>I concur.

Although this is mainly Jon's department, I think you are all missing a 
key point.  The reason the archive exists at all is due to our 
system-administrator.  The reason we have more than the disk space we need
is because of our system-administrator.  Is anyone in the computing 
center administration telling him he needs to let us keep the archive here?
NO.  

Some fairly intense reasearch occurs here, and machine resources are
not to be taken for granted.  I think it's quite fair that bart was taken
down to due it's abuses (intended or not).  At least the archive is allowed
to remain, even if it is only accessible by ftp.

How many of you gathered most of your st stuff from here when you first        
started out?  How many of you look here first for the latest PD
releases?  How many of you know that there isn't any where else to go
for digitized sounds?  Well, underlying it all should be a deep
gratitude for our system-administrator. Without him, none of this
would be possible in the first place.


weiner
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