From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 20 06:00:15 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id GAA10349 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 06:00:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jolt.eng.umd.edu (jolt.eng.umd.edu [129.2.102.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id GAA10344 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 06:00:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ginger.eng.umd.edu (ginger.eng.umd.edu [129.2.98.204]) by jolt.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA01493; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:00:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from chuckr@localhost) by ginger.eng.umd.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA03100; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:00:09 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 09:00:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey X-Sender: chuckr@ginger.eng.umd.edu To: Andreas Klemm cc: FreeBSD current Subject: Re: When gcc-2.7.2 hits ctm In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Andreas Klemm wrote: > On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Chuck Robey wrote: > > On Wed, 19 Jun 1996, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > > Andreas, EVERYONE who uses ctm gets all their updates by mail. I doubt > > if .05 percent of ctm users can take a one day 25MB mailbomb. I sure > > couldn't, the university doesn't give me that much room. > > Well isn't it your local FreeBSD box ... what does the university have > to deal with it ... Andreas, I can see why you don't understand yet. Most of the users of ctm are doing so because they don't have direct connections to the net. Just like me, they have dial up connections, and have to rely on someone else's host for connections, and someone else's rules concerning disk usage. I can give a Gig of space, but my University account has a 7.5 MB limit on it. I think that some folks will have higher limits, some lower, but the key point is that the amount of space is not under their control. No amount of planning is going to allow for a 25 megabyte mail dump. That's why I suggested specifically killing the mailing of the gcc, and allowing folks to separately ftp the ctm update of that one. No one would lose synch with ctm, and everyone would just be responsible to do their ftp aas soon as they can, to bring their systems current. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@eng.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 9120 Edmonston Ct #302 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and n3lxx, both FreeBSD (301) 220-2114 | version 2.2 current -- and great FUN! ----------------------------+-----------------------------------------------