Xref: utzoo news.software.b:7928 news.admin:14607 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!slxsys!ibmpcug!mantis!mathew From: mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) Newsgroups: news.software.b,news.admin Subject: Re: Really funny jokes being missed Message-ID: Date: 23 May 91 14:09:04 GMT References: Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK. Lines: 28 igb@fulcrum.bt.co.uk (Ian G Batten) writes: > In article mathew@mantis.co.uk (CNEWS MUST DIE!) > > Unfortunately, it seems there are quite a few sites out there whose system > > administrators have better things to do with their time than read the log > > files and send mail messages to people whose articles have been junked. > > When mantis starts running a few > feeds, and has people phoning up to complain the modems are down or > you've dropped their favourite group or somesuch, let us know how it > feels. As a matter of fact, for a while we were providing quite a bit of the UK with its main feed of the UKC-censored newsgroups, and we did get people asking what happened on the occasions when something went wrong. We also get people complaining when the modems are down, since we give dial-in access to selected people. Furthemore, part of our work involves shunting megabytes of data around on a regular basis, and providing support for a large software package which includes an e-mail system. If you think that I am not used to having people phone up and complain, or not used to fighting a losing battle to keep modems and dial-in machines working 24 hours a day, I'm afraid you are mistaken. mathew