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Subject: Re: Sites to be removed unless updates are received
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Date: Sun, 16-Nov-86 14:59:33 EST
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Tim Thompson rambles:

> 
> I sent out a note to a bunch of sites during the middle of the summer
> requesting that their map data, which  dated back to 1984, be brought
> up-to-date. A handful of people replied.
> 
> Again, on October 16th, I sent out a slightly nastier note to the sites
> that hadn't replied during the summer to send in an update for their
> out-of-date map data. Again, a handful replied. In the letter of 16 Oct.,
> I also stated that any site which had not replied by the middle of
> November risked being removed from the map, because I would have to
> assume that they were dead.
> 
> Well, it's now the middle of November, and the following is the list of
> sites to be removed. I'm not going to do any removing until the middle
> of December, so as to try and give the sites who are still around ONE
> LAST CHANCE at getting things up-to-date. If no update is received,
> these sites will no longer exist. When this happens, I'll be sure
> to make a posting to new.news.sa and new.news.config, so that the
> SA's out there will know to remove all links to the sites that are
> removed.
> 
		-- The ramblings go on for a while --

>  Timothy G. Thompson           AT&T Network Systems             Columbus, Ohio
>                                     cbosgd!tgt
>  DISCLAIMER:  These ramblings are my own. However, a thousand monkeys pounding
>     on a thousand typewriters would eventually produce the exact same thing!!

I'm not one of the affected sites, but it seems to me that Tim's ramblings
are reminiscent in tone to those of a petty dictator in some banana republic.
Do we actually need this sort of individual running _any_ corner of
reality?  What's your opinion?

						Rick Spanbauer
						SUNY/Stony Brook