From: BILLY@vaxb.acs.unt.edu ("Billy Barron, VAX/Unix Systems Manager")
Newsgroups: comp.infosystems.gopher
Subject: Re: Gopher Magazines, Journals, etc...
Date: 26 Aug 92 01:46:11 GMT
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>I've long ago given up on keeping track of all the journals that are
>available in gopher.  Right now I'm mirroring the list kept at gopher.unt.edu.
>
>Would the administrator please stand up, take a bow and and agree to
>keep track of these beasties?
>
>I'm too busy to do it myself and am hoping that someone will take the
>initiative and become a maintainer of the links to these services. 
>
The real credit to what we have belongs to one of my part-time
operator/programmers, Leah Langholtz (send kudos to leah@unt.edu :-).
Okay, here is what I am willing to do and not do:

1.  Maintain links to all journals, newsletter, and newspapers.
2.  Mail your link files to gopher@unt.edu or to me (billy@unt.edu).  Please
    make them complete and correct link files.  A short description of the
    journal would be appreciated also.
3.  The subject headings are not perfect.  I will not be spending any time
    arguing about or changing the directory structure.  All such mail will
    go to /dev/null.  See reason #4 for why I won't be spending my time here.
4.  When the Gopher Virtual Library (ordering of information by subjects)
    gets implemented, all the journals will be kept within it.  At that point
    I will drop maintance of the Electronic Journals links because several 
    people
    at GopherCon convinced me that there is no reason once you have good
    subject organization that Electronic Journals should not be a part of
    that.
5.  If you are maintaining a journal regularly that is already here at UNT,
    please let me know.  I would like to cut down (or switch) on what we
    are maintaining here locally and point a link at you.
6.  I will not be able to increase our local holdings much with new electronic
    journals.  I know of a few that are currently not in Gopher.  We are short
    on staffing and disk space to expand local holdings.  I would encourage
    people who would like an additional journal in GopherSpace to start
    maintaining the journal at their site and mail me a link file.
7.  Right now our Gopher server is down from 7 to 9:15AM every Saturday morning
    for backups.  We will not be going down as much as soon as we receive
    the copy of Legato Networker we have on order.
8.  Feel free to either copy our links on a regular basis or just point at
    us.  The box is a high-end 4 processor Solbourne (110 MIPS now - expect
    to hit 250-300 in about 6 months).  The Gopher server is a trivial load
    on this machine.

Sorry for all this restrictions, but I (or anyone else here) am not going to 
have much time to spend on this beyond what we currently are.  If the Gopher
Team buys off on this, go ahead and add it to the FAQ (probably don't need all
of my disclaimers though :-).  I will not be logged in much for the rest of the
week so e-mail may have real slow turnaround.

Billy Barron, VAX/UNIX Systems Manager, University of North Texas
billy@unt.edu, billy@untvax.bitnet, THENET: NTVAX::BILLY
"It was like Salvador Dali complaining Picasso wasn't a realistic." -
    Robert Anton Wilson
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