From owner-freebsd-current  Mon Aug 26 09:38:56 1996
Return-Path: owner-current
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA23577
          for current-outgoing; Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:38:56 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (spinner.DIALix.COM [192.203.228.67])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id JAA23572;
          Mon, 26 Aug 1996 09:38:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from spinner.DIALix.COM (localhost.DIALix.oz.au [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.DIALix.COM (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA22795; Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:38:38 +0800 (WST)
Message-Id: <199608261638.AAA22795@spinner.DIALix.COM>
X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.7 5/3/96
To: current@freebsd.org
cc: committers@freebsd.org
Subject: CTM users take note!
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 1996 00:38:37 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.DIALix.COM>
Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

We have some bigish imports on the drawing board (gcc-2.7.2.1, ncurses, 
nvi, etc) that might cause the people getting ctm deltas MAILED to them 
some pain.

It's been suggested that the exising ctm-{src,cvs,ports}-cur mailing lists 
be converted to "slow mailout" and a seperate set of new "fast, all at 
once" lists be started.

Gary Palmer has written a nice slow-delta-mailout backend for the ctm 
delta generator which should do the job nicely.

It defaults to 2 100K chunks per hour, that's 2MB per 10 hours.  Is this 
too much? Too little?

The current configuration won't mail out a delta that's more than 3MB, 
perhaps lowering that would be an alternative.

Does anybody have particularly strong feelings about the parameters for 
this?

(Watch the reply address, this is crossposted..)

-Peter