From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 30 16:24:31 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id QAA07699 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 30 May 1995 16:24:31 -0700 Received: from ns1.win.net (ns1.win.net [204.215.209.3]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA07681 for ; Tue, 30 May 1995 16:24:29 -0700 Received: (from bugs@localhost) by ns1.win.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id TAA07953 for hackers@freebsd.org; Tue, 30 May 1995 19:26:35 -0400 From: Mark Hittinger Message-Id: <199505302326.TAA07953@ns1.win.net> Subject: Re: mailing lists (fwd) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 30 May 1995 19:26:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 950 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Terry writes: > > We need regional subscription and exploders, actually. One exploder per > country would help greatly: > I think this is probably the way to go. We need to start considering how to deal with things when the list size gets 5 to 10 times larger than the current list sizes. I belive 2.0.5 will be very a big boost in this process. I am getting a substantially increasing rate of questions from linux people that are "trying" freebsd for the first time. They load it and are quick converts. Are *we* ready to deal with *that*? (yikes) The core team is doing a great job, and the handling of communications is going to get harder real soon. I hadn't though of the problems inherent in propogating news overseas. Another idea is to have some "sup" directories containing archives of the traffic. Say /usr/mail/hackers/may95.archive, ect. It would be nice to be able to grep it all. Regards, Mark Hittinger bugs@win.net