On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Kelvin Chu wrote:

> NetBSD1.2.  I'm running the generic distribution on a MacIIsi, and I'm 

Hmmm.  This is interesting.  So far, at least three of the people who have
responded are using IIsi's.  Was that just a high-seller, or is there some
kind of correlation between the group of people who bought IIsi's and the
group of people who are interested in running free un*x clones on their
Macs?  Anybody?  :-)

> The one thing that makes me very happy, PARTICULARLY in comparison to other
> Un*xy releases for the Mac 68k platform is that there *IS* documentation
> for NetBSD, and the people who are doing the development are pleasant
> to deal with.   They don't seem to be ego-driven coders with a huge chip on
> their shoulders.

Yeah, that can be a problem with some free un*x systems.

> On a side note, someone asked earlier if this newslist could be distributed
> in a 'digest' format.  I'd support such an option: those of us who want to
> read everything for the .misc list, but not in a play-by-play format would
> appreciate it.  I suppose one could just ftp the new archive files from
> 
>       ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/mailing-lists/port-mac68k
> 
> but it would be cooler if whatever script is archiving these letters would
> just send off the new file everytime it reached the requisite size (~50Kb).
> If this is an option, I vote 'yes'.

If there's not an option on the listserv for that, it ought to be easy
enough to set something up.  One possibility would be to create a
port-mac68k-d list on some box that _does_ support digesting, and set a
replies-to/reply-to field to encourage submissions to the digested list to
instead go to the port-mac68k list.  Then, just add the port-mac68k-d list
to the subscriber list of the port-mac68k list.  I'd be willing to try it
on my box if there are a number of people interested, at least on a trial
basis (i.e. if the box crashes too much, the digested list is history).
Any thoughts?

Later,

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