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Article #171Re: How Serious are we about running quipu?
From: Ben Chi
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 16:43
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 1990 16:43
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On Wed, 11 Apr 90 13:58:39 +0100 John McQueen said (regarding the X.500 pilot): >. . . >My personal thoughts are that if we are going to do this then me may >as well do it properly, and each organization make some sort of >commitment in money/manpower to maintaining an uptodate complete >directory. . . I couldn't agree more strongly. The whole point of a >distributed< directory is so that the contributors of the various pieces could keep those pieces up to date. If this is not done, the whole project will ultimately fail, just as have a number of other attempts at "wide-area" directories, most of which were not nearly as well-con- ceived. We generate an entirely new EDB directly from the University's Personnel Database every month. I'd be interested what the practice other DSA managers in this connection.
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