Unruh <unruh-s...@physics.ubc.ca> wrote: > "Wilson R. Afonso" <wafo...@csse.unimelb.edu.au> writes: > >The Department of Computer Science of the University of Melbourne > >has for many years hosted the stratum 1 NTP server at > >ntp.cs.mu.oz.au. This service is heavily used, with requests coming > >from all corners of the world; it responds to approximately 500 > >requests per second on average.
> >This service will be discontinued from 01 January 2010. We no > >longer have the capability (budget and manpower) to maintain the > >service in its current state, and rather than letting it degrade > >and fail, we're bringing it down in a controlled manner. > To bad. But I am wondering what the manpower requirements are? You > have GPS receivers and they would not seem to me to require must > maintainance. We may all be at least idly curious as to the why, but it seems that it would be better to thank Wilson and the University of Melbourne for their service to the community and wish them well. Our's is not to second guess their decision. rick jones -- The glass is neither half-empty nor half-full. The glass has a leak. The real question is "Can it be patched?" these opinions are mine, all mine; HP might not want them anyway... :) feel free to post, OR email to rick.jones2 in hp.com but NOT BOTH... _______________________________________________ questions mailing list questions@lists.ntp.org https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
