ovdluhe@ethz.UUCP (Oskar von der Luehe) (07/30/90)
>From article <1224@icus.ICUS.COM>, by lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano): > ... If no one "stands" up and takes over it, > and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain > the archives ... Let me know folks! Gee... and I was under the impression that you were already doing this! Please go on! -- Oskar von der Luehe UUCP: "...!unido!cernvax!ethz!ovdluhe" Institut fuer Astronomie SPAN: vdluhe@20641.span ETH-Zentrum DECNET: 20641::VDLUHE CH-8092 Zuerich, Switzerland
mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) (07/31/90)
In article <1224@icus.ICUS.COM> lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > >Since Brant Cheikes resigned from the Ohio State University UNIX PC Archive >maintainer, nothing has been updated since June 10, 1990. I know there >were several people who said they would take over his work, but that was >the last we heard from them. If no one "stands" up and takes over it, >and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain >the archives ... Let me know folks! > Funny you should mention this, I was just about to post. When Brant resigned, both John Milton and I volunteered to work on this. I felt that John would make a better candidate, because of his greater experience with the unix-pc. Unfortunately, John does not have FTP access, and according to Karl at OSU, their guest account policy has "gotten weird", so he is unable to give John a shell account, and the archive can only be maintained by FTP. John and I were in the process of figuring out if and how we could do this together, where he would identify and collect items for the archives, and I would do the physical maintenance of the archives and the monthly posting stuff. Lenny, if you can do this (do you have ftp access?) and would rather do it yourself, that's OK with me. Or you could join John and I. It might be more work than one person would want to do in their spare time, or with the three of us it could get the attention it really deserved! Anyway, let John & I know what you want to do. Sorry to all you other unix-pc.netters out there for keeping you in suspense. I'll try to resolve this quickly. -- Mark H. Weber ( mhw@Schuylkill.Canal.Org ) "Schuylkill" (skool' kill) Mont Clare ( ...!uunet!cbmvax!gvlv2!lock60!mhw ) is a Dutch word meaning PA USA ( ...!psuvax1!burdvax!gvlv2!lock60!mhw ) "hidden river"
lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano) (08/01/90)
In article <480@lock60.UUCP> mhw@lock60.UUCP (Mark H. Weber) writes: |>In article <1224@icus.ICUS.COM> lenny@icus.ICUS.COM (Lenny Tropiano) writes: |>> |>>Since Brant Cheikes resigned from the Ohio State University UNIX PC Archive |>>maintainer, nothing has been updated since June 10, 1990. I know there |>>were several people who said they would take over his work, but that was |>>the last we heard from them. If no one "stands" up and takes over it, |>>and no one has any objections, I will offer my services and maintain |>>the archives ... Let me know folks! |>> |>Funny you should mention this, I was just about to post. When Brant resigned, |>both John Milton and I volunteered to work on this. I felt that John would |>make a better candidate, because of his greater experience with the unix-pc. |>Unfortunately, John does not have FTP access, and according to Karl at OSU, |>their guest account policy has "gotten weird", so he is unable to give John |>a shell account, and the archive can only be maintained by FTP. John and I |>were in the process of figuring out if and how we could do this together, |>where he would identify and collect items for the archives, and I would do |>the physical maintenance of the archives and the monthly posting stuff. |> |>Lenny, if you can do this (do you have ftp access?) and would rather do it |>yourself, that's OK with me. Or you could join John and I. It might be more |>work than one person would want to do in their spare time, or with the three |>of us it could get the attention it really deserved! Anyway, let John & I |>know what you want to do. Sorry to all you other unix-pc.netters out there |>for keeping you in suspense. I'll try to resolve this quickly. |> Well so far the response I've gotten has been overwhelmingly favorable for me to do the job, although I don't want to stomp on anyone's toes. I guess no one would be worried too much, since it's not a very glamorous job ;-) I've gotten responses like, "well, I thought you were doing it already ..." Well I do have FTP access, through a local university. How local it remains depends on where a new job (if one ever comes through) takes me. I'm sure one way or another I'll have Internet/ftp access. Remember I've been taking care of the max.physics.sunysb.edu archives for MGR and other things for quite some time. I like OSU since it offers anonymous uucp as well... My feelings is that it doesn't require three (3) people to do the job, one will surfice, and did for quite some time, very well I might add. Having too many hands working on this will just confuse who's doing what when. All I wanted to see is getting the UNIX PC archives as up-to-date as can be and keep it that way for the rest of the UNIX PC community out there. For the amount of programs that get posted to unix-pc.sources, and for the amount of updates to them, I doubt we'll need three people working on it. So, as I leave it now, it's up to you guys -- whatever you want to do, if you want me to deal with the archives, then my offer still stands. If you want to deal with it together, then so be it. The answer will be coming to the rest of the world shortly... Let's continue this via email -- John, you listening -- you've been quiet yourself lately? -L. -- | Lenny Tropiano ICUS Software Systems lenny@icus.ICUS.COM | | {ames,pacbell,decuac,sbcs,hombre,rayssd}!icus!lenny attmail!icus!lenny | +------ ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752 ------+