[Coco] Hex Star... here we go again.

[Rod Barnhart]

Hex,

There is no "single point of failure." I've begun collecting
everything I can find, and I'm sure others have even more complete
collections than I. If one of the main resources were to fail, there'd
be at least a dozen of us willing to step in and help rebuild. You do
not need to worry there.


On 7/14/07, Hex Star <hexstar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/14/07, Rogelio Perea <os9dude at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > <ranting..>
> >
>
>
> I am very sorry that you do not appreciate my services. However there are
> many more people who do appreciate my services and actively use them. It is
> quite important that one or more people take on the task of mirroring this
> software as I am doing as otherwise there is the possibility of a single
> point of failure, and if there's a single point of failure that means that
> at any time the files in question could simply disappear and greatly harm
> the community. While some people may unfortunately dislike what I am doing
> there are many more who do enjoy my services and thus I plan to continue on
> as despite a few people much of the community is benefiting from my service.
> My servers purpose will only get more important and critical as time goes on
> and the vintage computing files become increasingly harder to locate
> threatening the vintage computing hobby's durability. I am aware that the
> Ira archive issue was very controversial and has obviously lost the respect
> of some members of the community but as time passes I have no doubt that
> everyone will eventually learn to appreciate the services people like me
> offer and it is my hope that more people will join with me on the mission of
> mirroring all the files encompassed by the vintage computing era so that
> there will be a continually decreasing chance that the files will ever
> disappear.
>
> In case you haven't already, you may find it useful to read my server's
> mission statement either via the welcome message shown after logging into
> the server or via the server's website at http://vintage.tsfsc.com.
>
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Rod Barnhart aka Wintermute (http://www.nitemarecafe.com)