hummel@m.cs.uiuc.edu (06/02/89)
Written 12:59 am Jun 1, 1989 by hansb@ariel.unm.edu in comp.sys.amiga: /* ---------- "fish disks 200-210!!!!" ---------- */ > ftp 128.174.252.27 > anonymous > guest > binary mode > cd pub/amiga/fish > dir ff20* > dir ff210 > /* have fun! */ The host to which he's referring is: 128.174.252.27 uihub.cs.uiuc.edu uihub hub As the person responsible for the material on UIHUB and also for the material in the archive at UIUCUXE, I wish to toss in the caveat that UIHUB is insufficiently administrated and does live up to the moniker "YO-YOHUB" coined by someone in this newsgroup. Case in point: I was just passing through the machine room a little while ago and noticed that it had crashed down to the monitor level while nobody was looking. After bringing it back up, I began to consider two items about which visitors to UIHUB and the UXE archive should be aware. Item 1: I am taking my first vacation in >year next week, followed next by a week in San Francisco for DevCon, and will not be around to pick the HUB off the ground or fill requests for the UXE magtape. Please bear that in mind if things seem to degrade beyond the normal bureaucratic mayhem from which I'm usually able to create some small degree of sensibility. Item 2: Having graduated a couple of weeks ago, I am making plans to leave the University come this fall. I am not confident that I will find a person willing to keep up the ongoing commitment to build and maintain the archives here as I've been keeping them for what is now coming upon two years. In particular, it is the need to coerce individuals responsible for the required resources into cooperating in supporting the officially unsupported (ignored) Amiga, that I'm afraid will deter anyone on this campus from following in my footsteps any time soon. I hope I'm wrong, but in the meanwhile, I'd like to hear from anyone out there who is WILLING and ABLE to commit the time and resources to taking up such an endeavor. I can arrange to provide the latest update to the UXE archive when I leave, along with the scripts, tools, and suggestions needed to get and keep things moving. Hopefully, this will be a person with administrative authority who, unlike myself, will be able to devote resources towards keeping a first-class Amiga archive site for all that stuff that's "out there SOMEWHERE" at exactly the moment you need it - and wish you had in order to avoid reinventing the wheel five times a night. Indeed, I benefited from the archive more than enough to justify my creating it in the first place. < Lionel ---------- Lionel Hummel 404 W. High St. #6, Urbana, IL 61801 University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign [H] (217)344-5303 [W] (217)333-7408 hummel@cs.uiuc.edu {pur-ee,uunet}!uiucdcs!hummel BIX: lhummel