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new### [at] povray org (povray.org admin team) writes:
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> I find it incredible that people such as yourself feel that you have a right to
> bag a service that SOMEONE ELSE (i.e. me) is paying for. I would have been
> totally justified in just taking it down entirely, instead of spending all the
> time needed to install and configure a different news server and write perl
> scripts to copy the articles between the db format of the old one and of the
> new one.
>
People like this *obviously* have no idea what it's like to try to
maintain an unreliable news server. Being a previous newsbastard, I
do.
Thanks guys.
Shalon Wood
--
People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die.
--Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
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On 29 Mar 1998 11:23:10 -0600, dst### [at] pelemlorg wrote:
>new### [at] povrayorg (povray.org admin team) writes:
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>>
>> I find it incredible that people such as yourself feel that you have a right to
>> bag a service that SOMEONE ELSE (i.e. me) is paying for. I would have been
>> totally justified in just taking it down entirely, instead of spending all the
>> time needed to install and configure a different news server and write perl
>> scripts to copy the articles between the db format of the old one and of the
>> new one.
>>
>
>People like this *obviously* have no idea what it's like to try to
>maintain an unreliable news server. Being a previous newsbastard, I
>do.
>
>Thanks guys.
>
>Shalon Wood
Whoa, hey I sincerely appologize people. I do know what it's like to
provide a service that people have come to rely on. And, believe me, I
know what happens when that service is disrupted and you have to take
all the flack. My main point of contention was that I didn't know what
was happening and believe me, when I don't get my fix of POV news
every day I get withdrawal.
I DO APPRECIATE the efforts of our heroic admin person, ( I'm not
being facecious ), and most humbly ask his forgiveness.
"people like this", indeed ! :)
Several years ago I was called upon to install a network. Actually, it
was a migration from 3-COM's 3-plus share to Lan-Manager, ( For you
kids out there Lan-Manager was Microsquats pre-NT networking OS )
After several all-nighters I finally managed to get the system up and
running. I arrived at work on a Monday morning at 8am after finishing
the installation at 2:30 the same morning. Needless to say I was a bit
tired and cranky. At 8:01 I had a line of five people outside my space
ranting and raving about not being able to print and then one guy just
had to get on my case about how his screen saver didn't work any more.
Yeah, "been there done that", but I still love doing it.
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Yeah! Stick it to him! This service is GREAT! It has minimal SPAM which
seems to have turned most other
newsgroups into irritating black holes of messages such as "Make a
Million Dollars...." or "Brand New Adult Site".
Why don't these people learn that if people go to a specific newsgroup
for a specific topic, they don't want to see
this "junk email"?!? I mean, annoying advertisements is one of the main
reasons I watch very little TV anymore.
Well, enough of my rambling.... I am just trying to say that I would
rather put up with the server going down
every once in a while, then deal with annoying ad in places they don't
belong.
Gre### [at] Computerorg
PS this rambling is my own opinion and please don't flame me for it
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