In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] (Aar
on T Porter) wrote:
> James Howard ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> : So why not find a few students who are VMS handy and offer them
> : indepentant study credit for maintaining and upkeeping the software that
> : MCIs doesn't have time to deal with?
>
>       Enter MCUG (Miami Computer Users Group)  A quite defunct student
> ogranization that did just that for at least a couple of years.
 
Exactly.
 
Student support, while often quite strong, is inherently transient;  support
of production services can't afford to be transient.
 
In any case, the present arrangement (Pine and Pico being made available, and
kept up to date, by MCIS but on a 'use at your own risk' / 'find your own help'
basis) appears to be fairly effective.
 
John
 
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