Text 8026, 78 rader
Skriven 2006-11-17 03:06:20 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
   Kommentar till text 8024 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
Ärende: ttylinux
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Hey mark!

Nov 16 21:01 06, mark lewis wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 ml> in some cases, yes... with hundreds of thousands of messages going 
 ml> back 5 or 10 years, no, possibly not...

I suppose.  Never really was an issue but I imagine to some it would be.

 ml> wish i had archived all the messages in certain echos from the time 
 ml> that i joined those echos because much of that information is now 
 ml> long gone, never to be recovered...

Right.  Stuff happens.

 ml> we didn't have FAQs back then and 
 ml> no one ever really gathered all the repetitive questions and answers 
 ml> and put them in one place like that...

I don't recall the first time I encountered a FAQ or where but did write
simular things to HOWTOs and manpages way back when in a land far, far away. 
FAQs are alright ... sometimes.  Sure would be easily adaptable to a true
bulletin board system.  No?

 ml> i know that when i was really 
 ml> supporting RemoteAccess BBS, at 500+ messages a day, i would answer 
 ml> many of the same question over and over and then there were times 
 ml> that i'd answer once and just let others read that one reply or 
 ml> possibly i'd provide a pointer to that reply (ie: see my reply to 
 ml> so-and-so with subject of blahblahblah)...

Although nowhere near 500+ messages a day, the same thing happens to this day. 
Seems to me that a BBS could be exploiting that functionality to this day and
perhaps there is an answer there as to present day usefullness of a BBS.  Hard
to say for sure.

 ml> where's that archive located? i only have max-3.03-etc.tar.gz (dated 
 ml> June 11, 2003) from the sourceforge CVS...

I forget where I got it but after looking at the compress.cfg contained within
I didn't think it important, or at least not how it pertains to Linux or any
other Unixie thingy.

 ml> comes straight out of the CVS... my routines completely remove the 
 ml> existing tree, extract max-3.03-etc and then update from the CVS...

I haven't bothered with CVS lately.  Tried SVN and didn't care much for that
either.  I can wait.
 
 ml> and since my logs are simple redirections of the screen output, i 
 ml> also can't tell what dates the updated files carry but i know there 
 ml> are a lot of them ;)

Beats me.  I am out of touch with CVS and simular strategies.

 MK>> For sure.  However repeating outdated and broken ideas isn't worth
 MK>> all that much ... is it?

 ml> there are many that make a lot of money doing that all the time... 
 ml> some are even millionaires ;)

Well that obviously doesn't apply to me unless they are willing to part with
some of those millions.  Not many of those around this neck of the woods ... if
any.  Definetly not any generous ones.

 ml>> nah! was just trying to be helpful ;)

 MK>> Me too.  One of these days it might actually work eh?  ;-)

 ml> hehe, yeah... and lemmings'll quit jumping over the cliff O:)

Did they ever start?  I thought that was a made up Disney deal?

Life is good,
Maurice

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