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From: | Zvika Bar-Deroma <AER7101@TECHNION> |
Reply To: | Revised LISTSERV forum <LSTSRV-L@DEARN> |
Date: | Mon, 13 Feb 89 06:08:13 IST |
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>Some notes about the LISTSERV/LISTEARN split:
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> And as an EARN postmaster, I would hate to see LISTSERV split in two
> separate backbones (for technical reasons), as much as I would hate to see
> LISTSERV (or LISTEARN) supported by someone different from Eric.
As EARN user (and local-LISTSERV-mini-guru, meaning that LOCALLY I'm
considered as a person who knows about the issue) I must agree with you.
I can't believe any one else could get anywhere near Eric's understanding
and knowledge of LISTSERV, and I'm afraid no one would give the same
support (or anything near it); I think the response time of the person
in charge of LISTEARN support would look more like APAR to PUT time or
even worse.
>* Assuming that Eric's proposal is succesful, I'd pay to get LISTSERV instead
> of LISTEARN. EARN has *some* money to pay for development and maintenance,
> but they don't even know what are the tasks they should assign to these
> people. This is why they didn't still contract anyone, even if there is some
> (limited) budget assigned for that this year.
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> And given the continuous battles and differences between EARN countries,
> major problems can be expected with the LISTEARN software as soon as it is
> touched by EARN. This without considering that it's almost impossible that
> they can find a programmer like Eric for the salary and stability they can
> offer.
>
>I just came back after a quite nasty influenza, and my thoughts are not very
>clear today -- you'll have to excuse any reiteration or obscurity in my mail.
>But I felt unable to stay silent in view of what's going on.
>
> Jose Maria
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