"Eric Thomas (CERN/L3)" <ERIC@LEPICS>
Wed, 6 Jul 88 22:32:06 GMT
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Some of you are still writing to me as ERIC@FRECP11, which presently gets
forwarded back to me without problem. However:
1. This can only increase the delay for me to get the message, ESPECIALLY if
you are on the Swiss side of MOP.
2. As of today, FRECP11 is operating without a systems programmer until
august. The only qualified system persons are a housemaid who knows how to
IPL the CPU and make backups, and the computing center director, who did a
"DL *.*" last year from the root directory on the MINI/6 to "clean up some
disk space" (well they also did a COLD start some time ago to fix a 3812
paper jam problem).
3. FRECP11 will be down from sometime around the end of july until mid-august.
The files may or may not be purged by the FRORSxx spool cleaner during that
period. Last year I cared about it, so I set up an EXEC to send me a
time-stamped file from another node every day, to see if they would purge
files as the previous year regardless of my complaints, which they didn't.
This year I simply don't care and will not even consider complaining if
they do.
4. The chances that I use ERIC@FRECP11 again in my life are less than 1%. As I
said, they did not even consider offering me a job (which I would have
refused anyway :-) ).
So, please change your names files to point to CEARN (not LEPICS) instead of
FRECP11. I am considering writing an exec to overcome the laziness of the 5-10
persons or so who regularly send me mail at FRECP11: first time you do it, you
get a nastygram. Second time, your mail is auto-discarded :-) The reason I'm
mailing to the list is that there are also a lot of occasional mail writers
who use the old address.
Eric
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