Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ucbvax!tag From: tag@ucbvax.ARPA (Todd Gross) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: And now, a USENews editorial (brought to you by Vivarin) Message-ID: <4302@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Tue, 22-Jan-85 06:37:17 EST Article-I.D.: ucbvax.4302 Posted: Tue Jan 22 06:37:17 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 23-Jan-85 06:20:14 EST Distribution: net Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 52 USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews... Hi, I'm Todd Gross, with a USENews editorial about dumping. Not toxic waste dumping, just dumping. You know what I'm talking about. It's when a person sits in a cold room full of machines. The person sticks a tape into the ma- chine, inserts a command and pushes a few buttons...and then sits around, waiting for his job to finish. Just sits there, watching the machine spin around and around. He's usually got nothing better to do, it's always late at night and there's no one around. Maybe he'll play a game to pass the time, maybe he'll catch up on old netmail (...nah). But usually, he just sits there. And when the dumps are finished, he carries the large stack of tapes down a maze of corridors until arriving in a small, dark closet--where a fearsome in- strument known as The Racks awaits him. While holding the heavy stack in one hand, he has to figure out which slot in which rack each tape belongs in. And he doesn't even get the satisfaction of a job well done, because all he ever does is shuttle tapes back and forth and back and forth, loading and unloading and loading and unloading. And if he's doing archiving, it's even worse. The wait time is agonizingly long, the stack of tapes is typically immense. And then comes the thankless but necessary task of figuring out where in the heck to stick the stack-- knowing full well that if any of these tapes should be needed, it will take hours upon hours of digging through the enormous stacks to find the one they want. We at USENews think this situation is a disgrace. We are sick of having to spin our reels, hoping in vain for a promotion that is promised but never delivered. We feel it's time to start crashing some heads. LET THE REVO- LUTION BEGIN!! We have nothing to lose but our symbolic links! We have a world to gain (The World According To DARPA). To aid in the attainment of this goal, we have set up a committee called the Dumpster's Union. Interested parties (preferably actual dumpers) can obtain information by writing to one of the addresses listed below. Thank you all for your cooperation. We will drive the technocratic bourgoiesie to its knees! HOME ADDRESS: tag@ucbvax.[UUCP ARPA] WORK ADDRESS: operator@ucbvax![dali degas renoir].[ARPA UUCP] or mail to: Todd Gross, c/o USENews 2401 Piedmont Ave. Berkeley, CA 94704 [The preceding was a production of USENews, which is solely responsible for its content. We welcome your response.] USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...USENews...