Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: notesfiles Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hp-pcd!hpfcla!hpfclo!jad From: jad@hpfclo.UUCP (jad) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Purdue Message-ID: <44400018@hpfclo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 18-Aug-84 22:58:00 EDT Article-I.D.: hpfclo.44400018 Posted: Sat Aug 18 22:58:00 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 13-Aug-84 00:26:17 EDT References: <384@pucc-i.UUCP> Organization: Hewlett-Packard - Fort Collins, CO Lines: 37 Nf-ID: #R:pucc-i:-38400:hpfclo:44400018:000:1501 Nf-From: hpfclo!jad Aug 8 18:58:00 1984 > /***** hpfclo:net.flame / pucc-i!afb / 2:09 pm Aug 2, 1984*/ > Oh, alas, Will NO ONE come to rescue Purdue's reputation? Oh gee, if I *have* to. No, really, I volunteer... I'll be back there before most of you read this. I'd like to point out, to Jon and to all the others, that Purdue's reputation was not maligned. Just the Purdue Computing Center. Now really, Jon, you can't say you have never slurred PUCC, can you? Of course, most computing centers have problems, but I considered Bill's flame quite appropriate ... PUCC seems to have many disagreeable policies. Like having their machines asleep longer on weekends than most CS majors sleep. That is just plain silly. They complain about not having the resources($), but if they can afford a Cyber 205, why in God's name can't they keep operators there? Or better yet, let the machines go unattended, much like the Engineering Computer Network? I will not allow myself to rant and rave again ... I've told them my feelings, and heard their replies. I'm sorry we disagree, but they make the rules, and we (on PUCC machines) live by them. Perhaps some day they will change, but I, for one, am not holding my breath. Thank God I'm a grad student now! -- john -- aka John Dilley, [ihnp4] !hpfcla!jad. "The wheel is turning and you can't slow down, you can't let go and you can't hold on, You can't go back and you can't stand still, If the thunder don't get you the lightning will."