Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 9 Jan 1997 14:34:46 -0500 (EST) | From | "Adam D. Bradley" <> | Subject | Re: Content of Kernel mailing list |
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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?)
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