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From: "Cesar S. Rabak" <csrabak AT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: DJGPP for Dos and/or Win
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At 13:43 08/08/99 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote:
>Hello to all users of DJGPP,
>
>I am programming under Plain Dos (Dos 6.22 and DR-Dos 7.03 TCP/IP).
>
>Unfortunatly I think this Mailing List produce to much traffic for all.
>

This fact per se is not a bad thing by itself.

>I have filterd the E-Mails from the last 7 month in Dos, Win and Misc.
>
>        Dos related Questions   around 30%
>        Win related Questions   around 45%
>        Misc Questions          around 25%
>

One of the beauties of DJGPP (IMHO) is exactly its ability to create
software that runs in DOS, Win (16 and 32) and lately more forgotten in
OS/2 using the DPMI services of it.

Since this is a list for DJGPP, and due the abundance of software in this
port, it seems to me natural to see a lot of traffic, specially due the
several interactions those environments and DJGPP have.


>I can not use a news server because I have only a mail client under 
>Dos and the news clients for win 3.11 crashes to much. - bad software.

I understand this issue, as I myself could not find a news server with
response time sufficient to not be a patience test :-)

OTOH did you consider porting of a news reader to Dos 6.22 or DR-Dos 7.03
TCP/IP, using DJGPP?

>My question is WHY do not split the Win related stuff from the others
>

It may not work the way you think. A lot of traffic may end up with people
redirecting questions from one list to another. 

Also, some questions may seem (to the poster) to belong to a "problem" once
to be clarified (here) that the problem is in other realm.

>EVERY DAY (!!!) I get a bunch of questions about LNF, dfe95 and NT 
>problems which are never related to me and Dos programming !!!

I'm affraid that a lot of other in the list may feel so about other
subjects, and fragmenting the list in too many specialized ones will end
with another (again IMHO) nice feature here, that is the "cross breeding"
of knowledge.

>
>I think many peoples does not have interesse on Win related stuff.
>
>Please let me know, what you think about it.

My two cents.

>
>Currently I am in creation of my own Internet Service in Strasbourg 
>on the base of Dos and Linux servers.
>No hyper expensive buggy Software form Micr0$oft is requiered.
>
>If anyone like to help me to install a new Mailing list under Debian 
>Linux 2.1 please feel free to contact me.

I wish success with your ISP, but consider as well getting a way of
becoming a new DJGPP news server for your area.

>
>Thanks for your answers in advance
>
>Webmistress Michelle
>
>
>Before I have send you this E-Mail I had contacted Eli Zaretskii.
>Attached his answer to this question:

[snipped]

Eli's point is also worth considering, the correct cut may be so different
for others that it may prove infeasible to split this list.

Cesar