MKL@SRI-NIC.ARPA (Mark Lottor) (11/19/88)
This is a reminder of what this mailing list is for. The TCP-IP list is for discussions related to TCP/IP protocols and implementations. Occasionally it is used for maximum distribution of Internet related announcements. It is not for discussions on passwords or system security, or anything else. It takes the mailer about 3 hours to mail out one message to the whole list. This means it can't handle more than about 8 messages a day without getting backlogged. Please don't clutter things up with one line responses, flames, or other useless personal comments. -------
SCOTTY@UOGUELPH.BITNET (Steve Howie) (11/21/88)
I agree wholeheartedly about an excessive amount of traffic being produced by this list (this message included:-)),so *PULEEZE* try to keep to the subject, and stop this petty bickering. I for one hate to see 40 or so mail messages, some many days old, showing up on my VM system daily - even with our neat mailer it is a real pain to have to look at every one of them and discard the 90% of them which could be quickly classified as garbage. I want to use this list to try to keep up with TCP/IP, not to listem to re-hashed month old arguments about viruses. That belongs somewhere else. Thanx, Scotty 'God invented Unix when he had to save printer ribbons'
craig@NNSC.NSF.NET (Craig Partridge) (11/24/88)
> It takes the mailer about 3 hours to mail out one message to the whole > list. This means it can't handle more than about 8 messages a day > without getting backlogged. Please don't clutter things up with one > line responses, flames, or other useless personal comments. Mark: While I generally agree with the gist of your posting, the notion that the TCP-IP community is limited to 8 messages (substantive or not) of discussion per day is highly disturbing. How can we increase the NIC's delivery capacity? Craig
art@SAGE.ACC.COM (11/29/88)
>It takes the mailer about 3 hours to mail out one message to the whole >list. This means it can't handle more than about 8 messages a day >without getting backlogged. Please don't clutter things up with one >line responses, flames, or other useless personal comments. How many end subscribers does the list contain? I would suspect that many could be within a university or at least a regional that could better be served by a second level redistribution machine. Having the NIC have to spend the time mailing across the Arpanet/MILnet and probably a couple of more routers surely must waste a lot of time. The domain name system went to a distributed hierarchical scheme to deal with the scaling problem and the TCP-IP list isn't likely to get any smaller with time. +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Art Berggreen Advanced Computer Communications | | <art@acc.arpa> 720 Santa Barbara Street | | (805)963-9431 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+