>> Actually, I think the comment you're responding to is right. >> Someone who is too new to NTP _shouldn't_ be trying to participate >> in the pool. > Well - if we do our job right with the monitoring system etc, then > the only pre-requisite really is that you're willing and planning to > be in "in it for the long haul"
Well, perhaps, if the cost of a host nominally in the pool but who's actually consistently thrown out by the monitoring is close enough to zero. You'd know better than I what that cost is. > Running a time server isn't *that* hard -- if we can't teach people > to do it well, surely that's our failure. Well, yes, except that - as I understand it - the pool isn't about teaching people to run timeservers; it's about keeping a list of publicly accessible timeservers serving decent time. As such, it's not a failure for us to fail to teach people to run timeservers any more than it's a failure for us to fail to teach people to, oh, say, speak Danish. :-) (It's true you said "can't", not "don't", but "can-but-don't" is pretty much indistinguishable from "can't" when seen from the outside.) That's not to say that I wouldn't help someone trying to learn. Just that I don't consider it part of our duties as pool members, or yours as pool admin. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [EMAIL PROTECTED] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
