Original poster: "Mike" <induction@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Hi Jonathon,
I like it as it is. Once a message has been
cleared, it should dump out to the whole list, one shot.
The inbound messages I assume go to a buffer disk area for Terry to
clear, once done it is available to send next cycle.
So, the load is on the system twice, one in , one out.
Once it is our own mailboxes, the load is off the system and it is
free to be available for the next messages.
Also, it may be serving the old message base for people that
research, unless that is on another machine.
The existing system reduces the need for all of us to come and
connect to the server for new messages because they are already at
our ISP server waiting for the next email poll (I poll every 1 minute).
The system you speak of would require everybody to connect to the
server, spend time on it looking at and reading messages, making
reply, etc. This would add up to a lot of connect time per person
and multiply this times 1500 people.
The system would run out of bandwidth in no time, the CPU would have
all those extra ports open, it would be a heavy load on the system.
I think Chip has the archive doing almost instant updates, maybe you
can come in with the search mode and browse your topics that way.
If it were done as you say, one good software would have been
PCBoard like in the old dial up BBS days, I used to run it and have
a 2 node copy I bought long, long ago. That had a reasonable
internet module available, multi conferences, file base, message
packet transfer in and out, etc. I ran RBBS in many versions, too. I
am sure there is better software these days.
But this still puts a load on the system for each connect, read,
reply session.
The current system with the search archives is best in my opinion.
Mike
--- Original Message ----- From: "Tesla list" <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <tesla@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 7:58 PM
Subject: Forum
Original poster: Kidd6488@xxxxxxx
Alright, I'm sure this idea has been beaten into the ground, but
has anyone considered switching over to web-based forum / bulliten
board, as opposed to the mailing list? I love being a part of this
group, but of the 50+ emails that come in a day, it seems that I am
interested in only 1 or maybe 2 subjects... I would think that it
would be easier for everyone, really, considering following a
topic's history, the much lighter load on the servers, and the
lighter load on Terry, even though the moderator would still likely
have to read nearly every post. I'm not positive, but there's
probably some free / open source BB software out there. Plus,
there's all the other neat things, like profiles, and tracking of
number of posts, etc.
What does everyone else think?
Jonathon Reinhart