Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Path: sparky!uunet!ornl!utkcs2!emory!wupost!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!ames! haven.umd.edu!news.umbc.edu!gmuvax2!esaffle From: esaf...@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle aka L. Ron Hoover) Subject: linux activists not very active Message-ID: <1992Dec13.155719.22573@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Summary: what happened? Sender: esaf...@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle) Organization: George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, USA Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:57:19 GMT Lines: 7 I've noticed a distinct decrease in the volume of mail in the activists mailing list. Say, down to 0 now! I think i've seen snatches of conversation about the list...but our newsfeed is VERY behind! Can anyone mail me and tell me why? Just curious is all... Thanks, Ed
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!funic!nntp.hut.fi!cs.hut.fi!arl From: a...@cs.hut.fi (Ari Lemmke) Subject: Re: linux activists not very active In-Reply-To: esaffle@gmuvax2.gmu.edu's message of Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:57:19 GMT Message-ID: <ARL.92Dec15041033@deathstar.cs.hut.fi> Lines: 43 Sender: use...@nntp.hut.fi (Usenet pseudouser id) Nntp-Posting-Host: deathstar.cs.hut.fi Organization: Helsinki University of Technology, Finland References: <1992Dec13.155719.22573@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 02:10:56 GMT Lines: 43 In article <1992Dec13.155719.22...@gmuvax2.gmu.edu> esaf...@gmuvax2.gmu.edu (Ed Saffle aka L. Ron Hoover) writes: :I've noticed a distinct decrease in the volume of mail in the activists :mailing list. Say, down to 0 now! I think i've seen snatches of conversation :about the list...but our newsfeed is VERY behind! Can anyone mail me :and tell me why? Just curious is all... Once again ;-) should this be FAQ? Linux-Activists should now be running. The list has been disabled due the problems it caused; too high mail volume. Now many channels are digested - I'm still going to make it better, even allow some people send to digested channel undigested mails (moderators?). I reprogrammed everything using perl, because it has nice string functions .. and it is fast enough. Digested channels are: 680x0 configs doc fsf gcc interviews kernel mgr msdos net normal scsi serial slip sound tape term uucp x11 These are currently sent daily. When Mail-Net configuring gets better I might change some digested channels sent twice in a day etc. Lists having less than about 50 users are sent directly. The system is going to look soon like mail based "irc" .. and give more service for ALPHA/BETA testers, for which the list mainly appear. There are much more better places to ask FAQs, like "telnet your.archie.site","login: archie", "prog inux". I'm going to release Mail-Net sources, so you can spread yafv (Yet Another Finnish Virus) ... irc to mailing lists ;-) : Ed arl