On Sat, 15 Oct 94 01:10:36 EST you said:
>Judith Hopkins wrote:
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>>          I was a subscriber to the list when the announcement
>>        was made that the University of Vermont could no longer
>>        host it (it was the largest list they had) so that a new
>>        home and a new listowner were needed...
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>>>    Are your universities supportive or do they grouse
>>>    about the burden the listserv puts on their computers?
>>>
>>         As I noted above it got to be too much for the University
>>         of Vermont...
>----
>Judith,
>
>Actually, I think the decision to move AUTOCAT from the University of
>Vermont (UVM) to the University of Buffalo was made by our assistant
>director, Susan Richards ([log in to unmask]) less because of
>computer resources and list size and more because the original owner,
>Nancy Keane, had left UVM and there were staffing questions as to who
>would be willing and who could be spared in continuing to manage AUTOCAT
>-- a very busy, popular, and at times, demanding list.
 
    Birdie, no-one knows better than I how busy, popular, and
        demanding a list Autocat is.   I certainly did not intend
        in my message to Tom DeLoughry to downplay Vermont's role
        in supporting lists and I apologize if it came across in
        that way.  I have been a long-time subscriber to UVMVM's
        SERIALST and for a time subscribed to ILL-L as well.
 
        I have never known exactly why Vermont decided to seek a
        new home and listowner for Autocat.  From the little that
        was said in the announcement of the list's availability I
        made the assumption (perhaps erroneously) that some person
        or persons either in the computing center or library or
        jointly had decided that Autocat was too demanding in terms
        of computer and/or human resources and would have to go.
        Whatever Vermont's reasons I just looked at its decision
        as an opportunity for myself and for Buffalo; I therefore
        offered to take over Autocat.   Running such a list
        IS time-consuming and challenging but also personally
        rewarding and I have never regretted doing it.
 
        The University of Vermont has every reason to take pride in
        having been the founding site for Autocat and for other major
        lists in the library field.
 
        Again, please accept my apologies if anything I said in my
        brief history of Autocat was considered denigrating to the
        University of Vermont.   That was certainly not my intention.
 
Judith Hopkins, Listowner of [log in to unmask]
  Internet: [log in to unmask]
  Bitnet:   ulcjh@ubvm
 
 
 
>The University of Vermont's office of Academic Computing is, and always
>has been, very generous in their support of list maintenance issues when
>it has been requested.  UVM continues to support faculty and staff in
>a number of other list endeavors -- large and small -- at the local,
>national, and international level.  I think we are as proud as being
>the founding site for AUTOCAT, as we are in continuing to maintain
>and support our other various list flora and fauna.
>
>Regards,
>
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