From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 13:38:04 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id NAA10904 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 13:38:04 -0700 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id NAA10861 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 13:37:58 -0700 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA11943; Tue, 30 May 95 14:30:47 MDT From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9505302030.AA11943@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: mailing lists To: jmb@kryten.atinc.com Date: Tue, 30 May 95 14:30:46 MDT Cc: hsu@freefall.cdrom.com, jfieber@cs.smith.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at May 30, 95 10:54:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > with the new sorting of addresses mail may start flowing faster. > especially for those in australia. (domain .au, pity the poor south > africans, domain .za). the next is to see how many users are at the > various domains and have them distribute the mail locally, rather than > having freefall contact 4 different machines in apana.org.au, for instance > (sorry guys, you are at the top to the list, so you're easiest to find, > and get picked on ;) > > unfortunately, there just does not appear to be that much overlap > in addresses. even an isp like netcom only shows 9 addresses out of the > 527 current subscribed to hackers ;( ( 527??? now bad, huh? ;) We need regional subscription and exploders, actually. One exploder per country would help greatly: From regional subscribers | V global-hackers | | To other central sites 'lcl' <---------------' | | V >From other central sites 'global' ------------> lcl-hackers | V To regional subscribers That way, if an international link goes down, there's one delay, instead of one per subscriber in that country. It also reduces the amount of international traffic that must be transported over *high cost* links. Multiple regions in the US _could_ be a good idea, but issues of route balancing, etc. are pretty bizarre (could be done, though). Subscription requests could be forwarded from the central location to regional exploders without problems (subscribe request from .za? forward it as a subscribe request to the .za regional exploder). It might even be desirable to have the ability to place distribution restrictions by region to allow native-language exchanges (though probably not unless the questions list is to be handled locally). On the other hand, Linux currently runs a private newsgroup heirarchy for their lists (instead of mailing them) and it's possible that that would be a better soloution at this level of complexity. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.