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From: boneill@hawk.ulowell.edu (SoftXc Coordinator)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.elm
Subject: Re: A Call For Votes [REPOST]
Summary: OK, here's mine...
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Date: 18 Jun 88 13:38:34 GMT
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In article <1101@bellboy.UUCP> hack@bellboy.UUCP (Greg Hackney) writes:
>
>If you 4 candidates would like to post something about yourselves,
>i.e. Elm experience, background, etc., it would certainly be appropriate.
>In fact, a couple of people has asked for this.
>

Well, here it goes...

I'm currently a system operator for Wang Institute of Boston University and a
student at the University of Lowell. At WIBU, I use an Encore Multimax,
which allows me to run things a little quicker than usual, as it is seldom
bogged down. At the moment, news and mail are somewhat slow, but we're
working on it. It runs UMAX 4.2, a BSD 4.2 equivalent.

At ULowell, I have access to A Sequent Balance 21000 (Dynix 2.1.2), Vax
11/780 (I think) (BSD4.3), and a Data General MV10000 (DG/UX). Although I'm
not a system operator there, I usually pass the stuff along to the operators,
one of which (Warren Lavallee) has volunteered as a tester. Also, ULowell is
much better connected. I can get news and mail in and out much faster
(that's why I'm sending from there now) and can provide anonymous ftp of
Elm. Also, I can send the files through a semi-automatic file server which
receives requests and send files via e-mail.

I plan to do most of the work at WIBU, as I can fully test everything there,
but they do not have SCCS. They do have RCS, and I'm reading the
documentation on using it.

Here's my thoughts on the Coordinator:

	1) Would release 'official' patches, after fully tested by the
	volunteers, and suggestions on improving them made.

	2) Further coordinate full upgrades with the testers for future
	releases.

	3) Once 2.0g is fully debugged and everyone is satisfied, make an
	"official" release (2.01???) to comp.sources.unix.

	4) Anything else people come up with in comp.mail.elm, or changes
	to the above, if agreed upon, are certainly welcome.


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