From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Mar 26 16:06:17 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA13642 for stable-outgoing; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:06:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.webspan.net (mail.webspan.net [206.154.70.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA13632 for ; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:06:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.5]) by mail.webspan.net (WEBSPAN/970116) with ESMTP id TAA03706; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:04:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from orion.webspan.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (WEBSPN/970116) with ESMTP id TAA24440; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:04:35 -0500 (EST) To: Warner Losh cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , stable@freebsd.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: SUP In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:04:52 MST." Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:04:35 -0500 Message-ID: <24438.859421075@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote in message ID : > I understand that. It might have been nice to give warning. However, > I do understand how a volunteer organization works and am not too > upset. In Jordan's defence, we DID give warning. We announced that the sup server on Freefall was going to be `core/committers only' (maybe major mirrors too) and be depreciated fast because of the load it was putting poor old freefall under. There are (or were) to the best of my knowledge, other SUP servers that were put forward for public use that were not under our control. The status of those other servers today I am not sure of. Unfortunately, it seems a bit like our `grab the gammas folks and beat the living daylights out of them so we can make a good release' pleas, it fell on deaf ears. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info