Subject: Re: A modest proposal
To: Andy Sporner <asporner@eagle.ibc.edu>
From: Jacob Suter <jsuter@intrastar.net>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/09/1998 17:37:44
Sounds good to me.  Also, is there a digest of this list?  (I'm too lazy
to check - and my internet connection is spending its life at 99.9%
saturated these days)

JS


Andy Sporner wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have noticed a dramatic increase of email volume for the last several
> weeks.  My apologies if
> I created some of that.  It seems like there are several categories of
> email that are being sent.
> 
> I know originally this was intended to be a list for the problems of
> compiling and installing Net/BSD
> for the vax.  But it seems like the list is being the place of many
> other aspects of vaxen as well.  It
> is frustrating to wade through a list of 50 emails each morning and then
> the titles don't match the
> content so I don't care about say "TZ50's" and delete them, then I might
> miss something important
> that might be there.
> 
> I complained that there was not enough interaction last year, but this
> seems like the other extreme.
> I wonder if there is any merit towards creating sublists for things like
> vax hardware and admin stuff
> as distinct groups away from the nuts and bolts of compiling and
> installing?
> 
> What do you all think?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Andy