Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:58:09 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com, richards@herald.net, isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: INN drive configuration Message-ID: <199609171558.KAA07397@brasil.moneng.mei.com> In-Reply-To: <199609170215.TAA03291@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 16, 96 07:15:28 pm
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> ... > > > You might want to go look through the mailing list archives, I have gone > > on and on about this sort of stuff in the past... > > Any up and coming ISP types out there should take this suggestion very > seriously. Joe has posted more useful information on many aspects of > how to make a ``Real NewsEngine'' and for that matter just on how to > be a very good ISP. HA! I am just a crazy old sysadmin who has been doing this stuff so long it becomes "common sense" :-) Thanks for the kind words, Rod, but the reality is simply that I have seen so many people do it _wrong_ (including one major ISP who I do lots of work for) and it just seems silly to allow other people to repeat the same mistakes (particularly when big bucks hardware is concerned). I _promise_ anybody who wants to undertake the burden of Usenet news that if you do NOT do the hardware right, you are in for a world of hurt. And the hardware is not easy to get right... Rod of all people knows this (and I will "scratch his back" and mention that Rod is _the_ person I trust as THE authority on server class motherboards/etc. You will not find more value for your dollars buying anywhere else!) Even after that, though, the software lessons and hurdles are very large. > This is _free_ advice that you should be paying contractor fees to get, > and even at that it would be more than worth it. > > My hats off to Joe Greco and his infinite depth of wisdom he has so > genoursly shared with us all. Ohhhh I am gonna be sick I think :-) But thanks Rod. And I in turn would like to thank all the FreeBSD folks for all of this, all my best machines and systems run FreeBSD, and over the years, so many FreeBSDers have been so helpful... the support available under FreeBSD has generally surpassed what I've seen from many commercial entities such as SCO and SunSoft, and the technical competence and excellence of ANY of these folks is hard to beat. What relatively little advice I can offer is in no way sufficient repayment to all of these folks for this wonderful OS. ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/546-7968
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