[Info-vax] Eisner? Down? (30 days later)

[Alan Frisbie]

Richard B. Gilbert wrote:

> I don't see anyone else volunteering to install T1 service and host Eisner!

OK, I guess it is time to step up to the plate.   If it becomes
necessary for DECUServe to move, I will give it a new home.

I have a T1 at my home/office.   I know it is not very fast by today's
standards, but the time-to-repair is great.   Both Covad (who I write
the checks to) and AT&T (who provisioned the local loop) are really
good about fixing the occasional outage.   The sole exception was on
Christmas day, when it took AT&T eleven hours to dispatch someone to
fix the line.

I am willing to make space, power, a fixed IP address, and DNS service
available for Eisner.   I will perform regular backups and whatever
maintenance is necessary to keep it running.   All I ask is that
whoever currently performs system/DECUServe management (presumably
remotely) will continue to do so.

Why am I willing to do this?   Well...

Both my wife (Sharon Johnson) and I were very early moderators
on the system, long before it was named Eisner.   Dan Eisner recruited
us at the 1987 Spring DECUS symposium in Nashville.   It was because
of this involvement that we grew to appreciate each other, and
eventually get married.   Dan was the first person we told about our
engagement, just before he died.   Dan was a good friend, and I miss
him very much.

This is just my way of trying to repay the huge debt that I owe to
Dan Eisner and DECUServe.

OK, I've made the offer.   Does DECUServe management wish to take
me up on it?

Alan Frisbie   (Remove _REMOVE to reply)
Flying Disk Systems, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA