From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/44734 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Copyright/license issues (was: [COMMIT] sign & encrypt changes) Date: Mon, 06 May 2002 23:37:07 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <878z6xargc.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87adrjse42.fsf@alum.wpi.edu> <87bsby4oy8.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87lmb2336u.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87662631te.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87wuum1lwl.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <3cx9mgs1.fsf@mail.ru> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020721120 12263 127.0.0.1 (6 May 2002 21:38:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 21:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-path: Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 174qBr-0003BZ-00 for ; Mon, 06 May 2002 23:38:39 +0200 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 174qB2-0000gC-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 16:37:48 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 06 May 2002 16:38:04 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA04428 for ; Mon, 6 May 2002 16:37:51 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 24397 invoked by alias); 6 May 2002 21:37:30 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 24392 invoked from network); 6 May 2002 21:37:30 -0000 Original-Received: from cygnus-ext.enyo.de (HELO mail.enyo.de) (212.9.189.162) by gnus.org with SMTP; 6 May 2002 21:37:30 -0000 Original-Received: from [212.9.189.171] (helo=deneb.enyo.de) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #2) id 174qAN-0002jK-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 23:37:07 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.34 #4) id 174qAN-0000TF-00; Mon, 06 May 2002 23:37:07 +0200 Original-To: Russ Allbery Mail-Followup-To: Russ Allbery , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: (Russ Allbery's message of "Mon, 06 May 2002 14:20:49 -0700") Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44734 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:44734 Russ Allbery writes: > I adore AFS. We manage a site-wide installation of over 500 packages with > just one and a half FTEs; there's no way that I could do that without AFS. AFS always impresses me when I see it in action (mostly when something strange happens to my home directory at the math department). > We tried to use DFS back when it was first being pushed by Transarc and > had it fail horribly on us. Our computing center ins considering migrating back to AFS for a distributed file system because DFS support is simply not there on most machines. (I'm still surprised are concerned with UNIX distributed file systems, officially, it's a Microsoft shop.)