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From: bittrolff@evans.enet.dec.com (Steve Bittrolff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Bye Bye BART
Message-ID: <2568@shodha.enet.dec.com>
Date: 20 Feb 91 17:40:15 GMT
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As I understand it, having followed this situation in several Atari related 
forums, the entire incident was an ACCIDENT, caused by a new user and an
unfortunate disk crash. Without going into details, the user sent in several
requests (for the same files) over a period of several days, because he never
received any response. The problem was on the server system, which had a bad
disk. It did, however, queue up his requests. When the system came back up it
sent all of the requests at once with the header reformatted in such a way that
the Michigan server did not recognize the requests as coming from the same
individual.

It seems kind of harsh to shut off all access because of this. It has been 
running fine until now and barring another accident will probably continue to
run fine. Why can't it just be reinstated?

Steve
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