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[John Schinnerer <john@eco-living.net>]

Aloha,

> Not doing this on ibiblio will cost us a lot of money. For its heavy 
> traffic, ibiblio relies on
> special "industrial" rack-mounted servers costing as much as $10000 each 
> and I don't think this figure includes hard drives.

Skip the scare tactics please.
By now I'm extremely well aware of your position on ibiblio and I am 
pissed off that you keep hammering and hammering on it.

> We should squirrel away grant dollars to pay professionals to do this work.
> If none of use are available then it might be possible to contarct with 
> ibiblio to have that done -
> they often hire and train UNC student "apprentices" to do work of this 
> sort.

So which do you want - professionals, or student apprentices?

> Forget that. We will have to get our own grants independently of 
> ibiblio. I feel certain about this.

I support asking ibiblio about this directly.
I do not support Lawrence speaking for ibiblio, because he is not ibiblio.

I am gone starting now through August 18th.

John S. out


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