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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@fr.inter.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] [reminder] pointer to Plan 9 FAQ
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Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 14:41:12 +0200
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i tersely and cryptically said:

> couldn't agree more.  been saying it for years (err, a decade?),
> but they never listen.

the 'they' does not refer to the plan 9 group at the labs.

'they' refers to any job or person where they've insisted
on doing backups to magnetic media.  i got the optical
media mantra after i'd read up on the plan 9 file-server.
after i'd read that, it was obvious, a decade ago.