From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 28 12:17:20 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA22652 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:17:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (palmer.demon.co.uk [158.152.50.150]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA22644; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 12:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from palmer.demon.co.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by palmer.demon.co.uk (sendmail/PALMER-2) with ESMTP id UAA06742; Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:06:54 +0100 (BST) To: Warner Losh cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , James Raynard , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: cvs-cur-2135 In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 27 Jun 1996 22:11:01 MDT." <199606280411.WAA17865@rover.village.org> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 20:06:54 +0100 Message-ID: <6739.835988814@palmer.demon.co.uk> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh wrote in message ID <199606280411.WAA17865@rover.village.org>: > : Perhaps a rate limited version of the mail lists should be made for > : those who want that facility? I would say that not EVERYONE wants to > : do that. I know that I'd still prefer CTM over SUP, even if I had a > : half-way decent net.link... > > Hmmm. I'd think that splitting the large CTM deltas into smaller > parts wouldn't be a horrible idea as well. I know they are split into > parts for mailing, but if part 27 of 40 buggers up, then you have to > get all 40 parts again via FTP. Combined with a rate limited list > (ctm-cur-slow) this would solve the problem. Just a thought. This means keeping two copies of the delta around (effectively). Why not just offer a mail robot to do this? With the change that I have nearly finished for ctm_smail to allow the slow queue option, such a robot would be (nearly) trivial to write. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info