From: Dave Airlie (airlied at domain csn.ul.ie)
Date: Mon 22 Apr 2002 - 17:39:53 IST
but then what about the people who have only e-mail access, over a 9.6 GSM
link or stuff like that .. the other thing is people don't like changing
and to switch to having to come into work and telnet to a BBS to read the
ILUG would drop our numbers... I like having a filtered mailbox that I can
read at my lesuire from anywhere I happen to be (which is going to become
a lot more diverse)...
Dave.
On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, John wrote:
> Is ilug at domain linux.ie practical. Let me review this. I find ilug an excellent
> learning experience, however the organisation of the information is not
> presented properly. As I can see there is approx40-50 mails every day,
> with supposed 800-900 members. Now 40-50 mails to me a day is a serious
> hassle since I am always on the move and only use mail over the
> internet. Sometimes I would like to reply to some messages but cannot
> because I am unsure of what stage the tread is in. At some stages I just
> want to go and take myself off the mailing list, Is this just me because
> I aint got a corporate email mail account that I review ever 2.5sec's or
> do other ppl experience this. I understand that it may have been
> practical in the past but this group has grown. What I propose is the
> setting up of a BBS for a number of reasons, greater community feeling,
> easily followed treads etc...... What I would really like to see is an
> irish telnet board similar to a community like sdf.lonestar.org(telnet
> here and take a look, login as 'new'), which I am a member of. Consider
> a place for all ILUG members to telnet to. Where a message board is
> available for discussion, possibly a live com room and space to share
> resources.
>
> Consider:
>
> ssh -l zeez bbs.linux.ie
>
>
-- David Airlie, Software Engineer http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at domain skynet.ie pam_smb / Linux DecStation / Linux VAX / ILUG person
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