[Cialug] Account requiem, or longest-held accounts.

[bofh at visi.com]

Now that's awhile.  Sounds like we have a winner.


On Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:00:38 -0600
  <murraymckee at wellsfargo.com> wrote:
> I've had an MVS account here at work since the day I 
>started, Jan 28, 1982.  Unless my math is off, that would 
>make it 28 years, 1 month, and 5 days.
> 
> Murray McKee 
> Operating Systems Engineer
> WFFIS - Wells Fargo Financial Information Systems 
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> -----Original Message-----
>From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org 
>[mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf Of 
>bofh at visi.com
> Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 7:42 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: [Cialug] Account requiem, or longest-held 
>accounts.
> 
> After two months of warning, today the provider of my 
> longest-held external shell account officially 
>terminated 
> their shell service offering and decommissioned the 
>server 
> at 17:30.  For me, this ended 13 years, 7 months and 10 
> days of access (almost to the minute).  It's a 
>bittersweet 
> time, only tempered by the solace of being able to hoist 
>a 
> cold one with the original sysadmin of the box tomorrow 
> night after a conference.
> 
> So I'd like to pose the question to the group:  how long 
> did you have your longest-held active account?
> 
> Any OS is fair game here--from *NIX to MVS to RSTS to 
> Windows.
> 
> 
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