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DateThu, 9 Jan 1997 14:34:46 -0500 (EST)
From"Adam D. Bradley" <>
SubjectRe: Content of Kernel mailing list
On Thu, 9 Jan 1997 msmith@quix.robins.af.mil wrote:

> > That is what I had hoped to avoid, I joined this list in the hopes the
> > majority of the posts would be the discussion of the implementation of
> > new hardware drivers, software ideas and protocols, I did not realize that
> > the majority of the discussion was "Please help me fix this", I admit to
> > being a bit brash in my comments, but I still believe that most had
> > understood that I was pleeding that one reads their current Inbox to see
> > if someone else has already posted this before creating a duplicate entry.
> 
> Heh, my inbox lags about a day behind the list activity, sometimes
> worse on our little overworked 256k link to commercial net here
> on base.

Ours can lag fm 30 mins to 6 hours (and lately there have been a few
24-hour traffic clogs) depending, I suppose, on vger's temperment, and 
we're only about 3 hops off of a Sprint backbone, and 12 from vger.  I
remember not long ago a 2.1.# kernel kernel release had a bug report
posted to the list before Linus's announcement could clear the list ;-)
A little bit of redundancy comes with the territory...it's a classic
data synchronization problem, I suppose.  (Anyone want to see topical
semaphores installed on the mailing list?)

Adam
--
He feeds on ashes; a deluded mind has led him    Adam Bradley, UNCA Senior
astray, and he cannot deliver himself or say,             Computer Science
"Is there not a lie in my right hand?"   Isaiah 44:20
        bradley@cs.unca.edu       http://www.cs.unca.edu/~bradley      <><


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