Date: Thu, 1 Jun 1995 21:23:15 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Terry Lambert <terry@cs.weber.edu> Cc: Mike Pritchard <pritc003@maroon.tc.umn.edu>, rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com, wsantee@wsantee.oz.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?) Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950601211321.13546B-100000@leo> In-Reply-To: <9505302003.AA11812@cs.weber.edu>
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On Tue, 30 May 1995, Terry Lambert wrote:
>
> Nobody thinks the fact that AlterNET has been toast for the past 3 days
> has anything to do with this?
No... slow turnaround on the mailing lists has been evident since
the day I joined them. I'm on a few closed developer lists that only
have a couple to a few dozen people (also Majordomo lists) and
feedback on that list is measured in minutes or tens of minutes.
Also, I get "personal" replies to my FreeBSD list messages if
they've been Cc'd to the original posters. Then a day or two later
(or more), I see the same message appear in my list mailbox.
Assuming the message left the other person's system at the same time,
with one copy to me and the other to freebsd.org, it's rather evident
the delay is caused by the list software.
I can't offer any good solutions though. Turning this into a
Usenet newsgroup has its advantages and disadvantages. Splitting the
list into smaller subtopics won't work because each of the new lists
will likely have close to the original number of subscribers. Gating
a mailing list to a newsgroup is problematic. Chopping off inactive
list subscribers after a certain period of inactivity seems too
drastic to me. Perhaps turning this into a newsgroup would be the
least evil alternative... *shrug*
--
Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao
taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org
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