Mail Archives: opendos/1997/03/19/07:28:21
On 17 Mar 1997, Richard Hoskins wrote:
> > Really, though, we should shift the whole thing to a
> > newsgroup. Mailing lists weren't *designed* for this sort of
> > volume.
>
> I think the volume is in part due to the recent OpenDOS release. Give
> it a year. If the volume is still this high, I'll agree with
> you. As it stands now, I'd argue against it in the discussion phase
> and vote `NO' in the voting. (If it got that far.)
The volume is only medium IMO. A lot of our discussions could
and should however be taken to the developer list. I think that
it will straighten out in a month or so.
> Newsgroups are a lot easier to start than they are to stop. (Witness
> comp.sources.*, comp.lang.perl, etc.) Prudence dictates a list
> demonstrate a *sustained* interest.
>
> In the meanwhile, if some folks are finding their software
> inadequate... well, they know what they can do.
They can upgrade their mail software to procmail/PINE and install
Linux. :o)
> > but lets not start a my-mail-reader-is-bigger-than-YOUR-mail-reader
> > argument, shall we?
>
> PID PPID PRI NI SIZE RSS STA TTY TIME COMMAND
> 7845 3619 1 0 11184 9108 S 2 0:17 emacs
PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
12128 0.3 33.6 3572 2296 2 S 21:13 2:03 /usr/local/bin/pine
Hmmm. You win. :o)
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