[95746] in RedHat Linux List
Re: A Call To Arms - lets get search engine fixed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Willie Twonk)
Tue Oct 20 23:57:11 1998
In-Reply-To: <362CDF52.6BFF633@ppp.kcc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 13:11:51 +0930
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From: "Willie Twonk" <email@ace.net.au>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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>A better plan would be to convince RedHat (or someone with a permanent
>connection) to implement a real bulletin board. I constantly use on in
England
>for old cars. See <www.ipl.co.uk/cgi-bin/forum18/MG/sublist.html> for an
idea
>of how one should operate. Everyone can search for items they want, and
this
>constant stream of hundreds of e-mails a day, of which each individual has
>interest in only a few, would be eliminated. That particular board has a
>feature that lets you subscribe by e-mail if you desire.
>
>
>I have only been registered on the mail list for a week, mostly because I
>bought three alphas and also upgraded an IBM box to 5.1 t that time. In
that
>time, I feel like I have read a question about glint not working, why does
>telnet take 5 minutes to load and why can I not telnet in as root at least
>three times per day. The sheer effort of handling this volume of mail is
>stifling. As RedHat grows, this system will have to collapse under its own
>weight.
I suggest have someone delete the chaff, might take an hour a day but make
the list archives a lot more useful and probably help with the overload
problem.
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