CHRIS@BROWNVM.BITNET (Christopher Chung) (06/09/88)
Ok it has come to my attention that we have a problem with large
postings going out to the list. By large I mean > 500 lines. Of course,
most of the postings are larger than 500 lines. The CUNYVM postmaster
has been complaining about this. So to deal with this problem I will
have to cut off most of the arpanet users since that is what goes through
the CUNYVM gateway. I thought that this problem was going to be solved
when the USENET gateway was formed but unfortunately I misunderstood what
the list really was. I am not saying that this link is not good. It is,
but we also need a redistribution on ARPANET and we need it fast.
Something like info-apple that ARPANET users can get to. Another way to
solve this problem is to post only the small stuff and archive everything
else, but the problem here is that some of the arpanet site cannot use the
GET command, am I correct in this point?
One other way to solve this problem is to split the list in two - one
for gs owners and one for everything else. This way you only get those
programs that you really want. Of course, there is an obvious problem with
this as well.
Anyone else have any ideas??? Send them to me and not the list.
Better yet lets get an arpanet list. Also those of you on bitnet sites
with several users might ask your postmaster to create a local distribution
account for apple2-l. Respond as fast as possible since this is a continuing
problem that must be solved or else the list get cancelled.
Chris