Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 12:49:24 +0100 (BST)
From: Neville B Dastur <nbd54 AT miranda DOT umds DOT ac DOT uk>
To: DJ Delorie <dj>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Please switch to the newsgroup!

On Sun, 11 Jun 1995, DJ Delorie wrote:

> 
> The list server at Clarkson has reached its limit and has begun
> rejecting messages.  Since the level of traffic is going up, the only
> way to fix this is to reduce the number of subscribers.  If we don't,
> we're going to lose the list server access, since we're swamping
> Clarkson's machines and network.
> 
> If you get news at your site, PLEASE unsubscribe from Clarkson and use
> the newsgroup instead!  You'll get the same articles at about the same
> delay (Clarkson is delaying messages a lot due to load) and we won't
> lose the mailing list.
> 
> About 150 people have switched to far.  There are about 500 people
> left on the list.  I'd like to see another 200-300 people switch to
> news, so switch if you can!
> 
> To unsubscribe from the djgpp mailing list, send e-mail like this:
> 
> 	$ mail listserv AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
> 	Subject:
> 	delete djgpp
> 	^D
> 
> Or visit http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/mailing-lists/subscribe.html
> 
> If you have problems unsubscribing, send me e-mail and I can manually
> check on it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DJ
> dj AT delorie DOT com
> 
> 
I unfortunity, don't have direct news access, but could someone post the 
uk address of a gopher site, or public NNTP host  that carries the DJGPP 
news group. This could be used instead!

	Thanks