From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Feb 3 12:57:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-stable Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29039 for stable-outgoing; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:57:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from eel.dataplex.net (EEL.DATAPLEX.NET [199.183.109.245]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29028 for ; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 12:57:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from [199.183.109.242] (cod [199.183.109.242]) by eel.dataplex.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) with SMTP id OAA27736; Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:57:05 -0600 X-Sender: rkw@shark.dataplex.net Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sat, 3 Feb 1996 14:57:07 -0600 To: Tom Samplonius From: Richard Wackerbarth Subject: Re: sup is broken? Cc: stable@freebsd.org Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >> If the sup server isn't going to work anymore, why don't you remove all >> references to it including the FAQ etc ? > > I think Richard is being overly dramtic. sup is still pretty good way >of getting updates, and still being supported. What's dramatic? I didn't claim that sup was bad or unsupported. I do advocate taking the load off of the sup servers by going to a "push" technology rather than a "pull" technology. > Run "sup" in an infinite loop for a few days. Eventually, you will get >a slot. (This is a bad thing, BTW) But necessary. :-( ---- Richard Wackerbarth rkw@dataplex.net