From Moon at SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA  Sat Nov 30 05:44:00 1985
From: Moon at SCRC-STONY-BROOK.ARPA (David A. Moon)
Date: Nov 29 85 23:44 EST
Subject: Any takers?
In-Reply-To: <[MIT-MC.ARPA].692189.851024.ALAN>
Message-ID: <851129234420.3.MOON@EUPHRATES.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Date: Thu, 24 Oct 85 23:38:25 EDT
    From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC.ARPA>

    With all of these parity errors MC gets these days, and with all of these
    naive users who haven't the slightest idea what to do when they have
    detached job trees, the amount of disowned junk is getting to be a pain.
    Now there is really no good reason why a program couldn't be written that
    would would look around in the system for jobs with your XUNAME and offer
    some intelligent (and clearly explained) choices to you.  Anybody
    interested?  I'm not up for thinking about the problem right now, but I'd
    be happy to brainstorm in person with anyone else who would like to take a
    crack at it.


I'm sure I wrote this at Ellen's request and she put it into the init files of
the known naive Macsyma users.  I think it was called RETACH or something like
that.