RE: That other HV List - e-mail servers, computers, spam...

["Tesla list" <tesla-at-pupman-dot-com>]

Original poster: "Chip Atkinson by way of Terry Fritz <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>" <chip-at-pupman-dot-com>

I'll comment more on Terry's stuff later, but just a quick note -- there
is also sparc linux.  A good compromise! :-)

Chip

On Fri, 27 Jun 2003, Dave Halliday wrote:

 > You seem to have the SUN on order but you may want to consider Linux on
 > an Intel or Athlon box - reliability is excellent and there are some
 > fantastic e-mail/spam/mailing list applications out there that are not
 > ported to Solaris.
 >
 > Let me know if you have any questions - I have set this up for the place
 > where I work (50+ engineers; marine design company) and it has been
 > running flawlessly for more than one year.  Modest equipment needs
 > too...
 >
 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla-at-pupman-dot-com]
 > > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2003 9:41 PM
 > > To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
 > > Cc: chip-at-pupman-dot-com
 > > Subject: Re: That other HV List
 > >
 > >
 > > Original poster: "Terry Fritz" <teslalist-at-qwest-dot-net>
 > >
 > > Hi Pete,
 > >
 > > At 11:13 AM 6/27/2003 -0700, you wrote:
 > >
 > > >Terry,
 > > >       I vote to allow all HV topics on this list. I'm
 > > interrested in
 > > >TCs, induction coils, CW multipliers, Marx generators, and
 > > >coin-crushers, and feel that there is enough commonality and
 > > >cross-usefulness that it would be a good thing.
 > >
 > > No one is sure where the other list is at right at the moment
 > > ;-)  I guess
 > > they are still talking about it...
 > >
 > > I have been allowing those other related high voltage topics
 > > lately.  The
 > > key is that the regular "Tesla stuff" is not generating like
 > > 100+ post per
 > > day, so there is "room" for the other stuff right now.  It
 > > has been no
 > > problem at all really.  The problem would come if the traffic
 > > started to
 > > really pick up and we start getting very large numbers of
 > > mails such that
 > > no one could keep up (like me :o))  This spring was very tame
 > > compared to
 > > previous years when early spring got like 70+ posts per day
 > > consistently.  So I am just playing it all by ear...
 > >
 > > I would think that two lists would really be best.  I imagine
 > > most people
 > > would sign up for both and notice little difference other
 > > than the reply to
 > > addresses.  A problem with everything on one list might come
 > > in a year or
 > > so when say the high voltage list really started to dominate
 > > things and
 > > Tesla coilers felt they were "second".  Then we would have to
 > > kick them off
 > > "our" list to another anyway :o))
 > >
 > > A true high voltage group could probably also use a true high voltage
 > > moderator that was expert in the high voltage areas other than Tesla
 > > coils.  There are many high voltage subjects that are pretty
 > > far removed
 > > from Tesla coils and people that are expert there may not
 > > care about coils
 > > =:O    Take the subject of "lifters".  That area has a lot of
 > > questions
 > > that are pretty removed from what true coilers would care
 > > about.  And,
 > > Lifter folks may have little interest in coils...  Two groups
 > > would easily
 > > handle that situation.  Tesla coiling really is a small subset of the
 > > "whole world" of high voltage.  Personally, I don't think
 > > mixing us with
 > > the larger world on just one list is a good thing.  It is
 > > easy to sign up
 > > for a few groups of interest, but hard to just filter everything of
 > > interest coming in on just one list...
 > >
 > > If Chip wants to rule the whole world of high voltage (I know
 > > he does :o)),
 > > I can see running a bunch of lists on say Tesla coils, lifters,
 > > electrostatics, crushers....  And people could just sign onto
 > > a "check
 > > list" of the ones they are specifically interested in...  Not
 > > sure how
 > > messy that would be from his side, but it may be a cool way
 > > to work things.
 > >
 > >
 > > In other news...  As part of Terry's project "Escape from Microsoft
 > > products!!"  I am getting a Sun RAQ 550 server to "slowly"
 > > replace the
 > > present hot-streamer-dot-com computer.  The new "big time" server
 > > would have
 > > many cool features like handling pop3 accounts that could be
 > > changed fast
 > > to slip away from spammers.  Thus, folks could use that for
 > > e-mails and not
 > > worry with things like AOL problems...  And, "I" would not
 > > have to worry
 > > stripping those "Stop spam now by getting MSN so you only get
 > > Microsoft
 > > spam that spammers have to pay us to spam you with..."
 > > trailers...  It also
 > > has DNS services so maybe people could have direct Tesla coil
 > > sites without
 > > the "hot-streamer-dot-com" part in the URL.  If bandwidth were to
 > > "get bad" I
 > > could also just ship the whole thing off to a "big time"
 > > server house for
 > > wild bandwidths...  The RAQ also has full mail list capabilities
 > > too >:o))  Still all a ways off, but things are going in that
 > > direction
 > > here...  I have looked at servers for about a year now and
 > > Sun RAQ seems by
 > > far the best choice for computer dummy "me" to run such
 > > things with ;-))  I
 > > figure it is better to start things a year before
 > > hot-streamer blows up,
 > > rather than 5 minutes after :o))  I also note that Pete works
 > > for Sun ;-))
 > >
 > > Cheers,
 > >
 > >          Terry
 > >
 > >
 > >
 > >
 >