TEES decided not to delete people because of the possible damage to NSF's
history tables.  If a co-pi is gone (for whatever reason) and we delete
them, we don't know what impact that will have on retireval of NSF data.
Perhaps Bill Kirby can advise us on this subject.

 Jean.

Jean N. Humphries
Director, Research Services
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
The Texas A&M University System

006 Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center - MS 3406
College Station TX 77843-3406

Phone:  (409) 845-1264
Fax:    (409) 845-9643
Email:  xxxxxx@tamu.edu
URL:    http://engineer.tamu.edu/tees/trs/

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>Date:         Wed, 13 Nov 1996 15:18:48 -0500
>X-From:       Franci Farnsworth <xxxxxx@PANTHER.MIDDLEBURY.EDU>
>Subject:      NSF Fastlane System
>
>To: Multiple recipients of list RESADM-L <xxxxxx@health.state.ny.us>
>
>A question for any of you who've been using this system for awhile...
>
>NSF pre-loads the system with the names of all PI's from your institution
>who have ever submitted proposals.  What are the pro's and con's of
>cleaning up that list by deleting the names of those faculty members who
>have died, retired, or otherwise moved on and aren't expected back?
>
>My first instinct was to delete all those names -- but once done they would
>be hard to retrieve.  So I'm looking for advice from the more
>experienced...
>
>Thanks.
>
>Frances Vinal Farnsworth
>Coordinator of Sponsored Research
>Grants Office - Forest Hall
>Middlebury College
>Middlebury, VT  05753
>
>Tel:  802-443-5889
>Fax:  802-443-2083
>email:  xxxxxx@mail.middlebury.edu
>

Jean N. Humphries
Director, Research Services
Texas Engineering Experiment Station
The Texas A&M University System

006 Wisenbaker Engineering Research Center - MS 3406
College Station TX 77843-3406

Phone:  (409) 845-1264
Fax:    (409) 845-9643
Email:  xxxxxx@tamu.edu
URL:    http://engineer.tamu.edu/tees/trs/

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