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Xref: sserve comp.unix.bsd:11614 comp.os.386bsd.misc:64 Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!ogicse!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!tfs.com!julian Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Ref.tfs.com (the future of) Message-ID: <1993Mar4.223229.23916@tfs.com> From: julian@tfs.com (Julian Elischer) Date: 4 Mar 93 22:32:29 GMT Organization: Trw Financial Systems Article-I.D.: tfs.1993Mar4.223229.23916 Lines: 42 Ref.tfs.com will be closing down as a site at which other people can log in and run 386bsd. It will stay on for a while as an FTP site. All accounts on ref will be dissabled at the end of the upcoming weekend. Directories will not be deleted for a while, so you may still use ftp to get any files you have left there. The mail aliases will continue to work for the forseeable future and in the case that ref.tfs.com goes away, I will redirect the tfs nameserver to forward MX requests to cgd's new machine (or maybe just let tfs.com itself act as the mailing list server.. (easily done).) (alternatively, ref may downgrade to a 386-20 that is spare here and remain as a mail forwarder indeffintly) As you are probably aware, I am leaving TFS after a 3 year posting here in the United states. I will be returning to Australia and hope to continue working with 386bsd from there. I will however not be as closely coupled to the net. I will continue however to have SOME connections to tfs and can hope to influence the final resting place of ref. I fly out on the 11th of March and by then hope to have ref stable enough as just an ftp server, that the regular sysad team at tfs will continue to run it. (they have a slight interrest in 386bsd as well) There are now enough running 386bsd sites that people having trouble with it should be able to find a machine nearby to experiment with, so the need for user account on ref has decreased. My thanks to all those that helped me set up and run ref: sarah, ljo, cgd, hasty, rich, nate (and a host of others)! julian +----------------------------------+ ______ _ __ | __--_|\ Julian Elischer | \ U \/ / On assignment | / \ julian@tfs.com +------>x USA \ in a very strange | ( OZ ) 2118 Milvia st. Berkeley CA. \___ ___ | country ! +- X_.---._/ USA+(510) 704-3137(wk) \_/ \\ v [ Home on the 13th! ]