I agree, and I usually ask requestors to contact an existing maintainer and collaborate. Inevitably the existing maintainer does not want to allow access to his/her server, or the requestor claims s/he cannot possibly collaborate with someone in a different admin unit. I have some sympathy for that. I could not give another unit at BC access to the server I use to publish boc without violating university security regulations. The more annoying thing from my perspective are the repeat requests from the _same_ unit after several months of inaction by the first requestor. I try to catch those. And the other day someone asked to establish an archive for a uni dept that has been in RePEc for years. Turns out they have no idea how to access their existing content so they wanted to just start over!! Kit via iPhone 4 On Jul 23, 2011, at 17:24, "Sune Karlsson" <Sune.Karlsson@oru.se> wrote:

This is driving me nuts. There are already at least 6 archives from this university, des, dsc, rsp, rsq, sap, saq. There are serious scale problems with the mirroring process and we need to do our best to avoid this, more or less, unnecessary proliferation of archives. We are victims of our own success...

/Sune

On 2011-07-23 15:38, Christopher Baum wrote:

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Template-type: ReDIF-Archive 1.0 Handle: RePEc:sas Name: Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics, Department of Statistics, "Sapienza" University of Rome Maintainer-Email: s.fachin@caspur.it Description: This archive collects working papers from the Centre for Empirical Economics and Econometrics of the Department of Statistics of "Sapienza" University of Rome URL: http://www.dss.uniroma1.it/RePec/sas

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