As per Thomas' note - HERE, HERE!
I agree, the 5 minute jobs are becoming my job entirely!
Yes, yes, I understand the benefits and I am not one who can really
complain except for the fact that I have just received part of the
updates and will not be able to perform the updates because I am leaving
town until Tuesday to be with my newborn Nephew.
I too would be a tad perterbed if LISTSERV crashed here and came back
on Tuesday to find that the Director, Assistant Director, Systems
Manager and fellow workers were peeling themselves from the ceiling
because the local lists we have are not operational because the
machine killed itself from an outside source. Someone else mentioned
something about system security and the like. I would tend to agree
that although it is Eric's program, and &^%$^%$#@ great one at that,
we should consider a more intelligent approach to resolving
mis-levelled software. I really don't even feel comfortable with
taking the back-leveled sites off the back bone of listserv - it does not
seem to be fair to me. Eric, I understand your dilemma, but I guess
I am a bit of an optimist in thinking that there must be a better
solution. I am also curious as to whether or not you still intend to
distribute the new PEERS list on monday after all the discussion
today that kind of says "we wish you would not". If we could
solve this problem - then it could be a general to the maintenance
and distribution of NETWORK software. And the time seems right do it.
 
Nobody asked - just my opinion.
 
            - Michael Gettes, Boston University