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Aaron Morris <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 22 Jun 1998 11:06:47 EDT
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> I am puzzled about one thing - who pays for all of this?.
 
Well, the answer isn't as straight forward as one might think.  BEE-L is
hosted at the University at Albany, one of 4 universities in the State
University of New York educational system (SUNY).  SUNY also includes
17 colleges and the central administration (SUNY Central).  So the short
answer is BEE-L is "paid for" by the State of New York tax payers, but
that would be an oversimplified answer.  Student tuition also helps fund
the SUNY budget as does alumni contributions, grants and whatever else
funds a university budget.  LISTSERV lists are considered a vital part of
the University mission.  The infrastructure on which all this runs
(the Internet) is funded by the customers.  So who pays?  Well in part,
YOU DO!
 
The machine on which BEE-L is hosted and on which LISTSERV runs is an
IBM 9672/R21 (funded by the University at Albany) and the technical
support staff is part of the UA system whose duties encompass far more
than the care and feeding of LISTSERV, they support the entire machine.
LISTSERV is simply another product supported on the UA mainframe and
BEE-L is only a subset of the services offered under the  LISTSERV
umbrella.  There are about 50 lists supported at or served from UA.
In the "pecking order" BEE-L is far down on the totem pole, but may
receive preferential treatment because the owner coincidently is the
former manager of the systems programming staff at the University.
 
As Paul Harvey (an anouncer on American radio) would say, "And now you
know the rest of the story."
 
Aaron Morris - I think, thereore I bee!

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