Date   : Tue, 24 Sep 1991 14:25:00 GMT
From   : cis.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!unix.cis.pitt.edu!pitt!grgzfla!dcb@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Daniel C Becker)
Subject: Re: The future of the SIMTEL-20 archive.

In Message-ID: <2571@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au> henryb@usage.csd.unsw.oz.au 
(Dr Henry Brancik) writes:

> In article <9109200705.AA04127@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>, PHR00JG%TECHNION@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL
("Jacques J. Goldberg") writes:
> > I am certainly prepared to commit myself to take a 10 years subscription
> > for say 50$/year. How many of us are needed to offer THAT job to Keith,
> > instead of hearing that a person to whom we owe so much has to look for
> > a job now?
> 
> I am prepared to do the same (10 year "subscription" for about $US50/year)
> and I hope that many other people would be prepared to contribute more or
> less.

I wouldn't mind contributing either, if my status as 'unemployed' would
change.  Unfortunately, I don't think it will anytime soon.

Also, as SimTel20 (and hence Keith's position) is somehow funded by the US
government, I would find it very unlikely that even if _every_ subscriber
to comp.os.cpm petitioned for its continued existance, the decision would
be reversed.  It boils down to money, and Uncle Sam has decided that the 
CP/M community is no longer worth holding onto.

It would seem prudent to investigate ways of minimizing the effect that
losing SimTel20 (and Keith) will have to our archiving/retreiving ability.  
I understand there was another site somewhere that 'mirrored' SimTel20;
true?  Will that system also be closing shop?  Or will it become the prime
archive site for comp.os.cpm ?  Might it be possible to convince some
other site to provide a home for said archive?  If there is such a site,
but is lacking in administrative manpower to handle the load, I think we
can suggest a qualified canidate (right Keith? ;-)).

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