Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:06:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT blackwidow DOT saultc DOT on DOT ca>
To: Richard Hoskins <rmh AT interlaced DOT net>
cc: opendos AT mail DOT tacoma DOT net
Subject: Re: [opendos] Reply-to fields
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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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