Date: Thu, 1 Jun 95 13:59 WET DST From: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freebsd-* mailing lists (Was Re: SUP server down?) Message-ID: <m0sHHKY-000K0oC@pelican.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950601211321.13546B-100000@leo>
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In article <Pine.BSI.3.91.950601211321.13546B-100000@leo> you write: >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? And sprintlink over the weekend through part of Tuesday, and a few other smaller "backbone" isp's too... Sprintlink couldn't get from nynap to mae-east a lot of the time; this breaks lots of routes. > 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. Though I do it here to local newsgroups, just to get the threaded reader. Much easier to follow subjects that way, even without references: lines. >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* Well, I could put an exploder at interworld.net; don't know how much help that would be (or how easily majordomo slaves, etc.) It is T-1 connected with good paths to pacnap/mae-west and mae-east but (currently) a worse path (but mostly working) to nynap and cerfnet... Another exploder in europe somewhere might help a lot too. -- Pete
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