[2448] in linux-net channel archive
Re: lack of messages Re: duplicates
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Pawlikaniec)
Wed Apr 10 13:24:30 1996
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:20:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: Thomas Pawlikaniec <neutrino@ee.mcgill.ca>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@caip.rutgers.edu>
cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604100050.UAA18451@huahaga.rutgers.edu>
On Tue, 9 Apr 1996, David S. Miller wrote:
> I fix the problem where duplicate messages go out, so what do people
> do? They complain that traffic to the lists have dissipated too
> much...
>
> I give up... go figure
NO! _please_ don't give up!
I was just thinking about suggesting that anti-duplicate policy to you.
Well, I am not sure it works perfectly, since I still got some messages
in double on linux-net and linux-ppp, but maybe that were old ones just
highly delayed. Most of them were single though :-)))
In any case, that is just a marvelous feature :-)
One detail though: I never saw a post where you said you were applying an
anti-duplicate policy, so some folx might wonder if whether they get all the
posts (as there have been problems before). That's probably the reason
why some people were _surprised_. No one reasonable can be really
_complaining_ about so much saved ressources and time.
So my idea: just post an announce about that new policy to every mailing
list, separately, so they get it 30 times it they are on 30 mailing lists ;-)
Thomas Pawlikaniec
.sig coming Real Soon Now ;-)
