Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!SCFVM.BITNET!ZMLEB From: ZMLEB@SCFVM.BITNET (Lee Brotzman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: ForthNet articles backlogged. Message-ID: <9001042128.AA21456@jade.berkeley.edu> Date: 4 Jan 90 21:03:09 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 42 Doug Philips writes: > >You've all probably seen Lee Brotzman's message by now. It is not now, nor >was it ever either Gary Smith's or my intent to inundate comp.lang.forth >with garbage. ... ... >As I am doing this as a service to the forth community, I'm very open to >suggestions as to how to help ForthNet grow as painlessly as possible, but I > also realize that no growth of any significance will ever be totally painless. > > -Doug Sorry if I gave the wrong impression. The problems I having supporting the recent ForthNet traffic is simply a matter of volume, not content. I don't think I can justify the computer time to process the list, even if every message was a priceless gem (and they weren't before, so how could I expect them to be now?). I will suggest this, however: pare down the wide range of topics that is being taken from ForthNet to a more limited focus, at least at first. Let GEnie and the PC BBS's open conferences/topics that are dedicated to comp.lang.forth messages. Post all of comp.lang.forth to these individual areas on ForthNet, and extract replies only from those areas. This will cut don on the "cross-talk" I have noticed in some of the ForthNet messages, and has the added advantage of allowing users on GEnie and the PC BBS's to skip the comp.lang.forth areas completely if they so desire. Also, you won't have to manually review the ForthNet traffic, Doug. After this is up and running smoothly, perhaps then the connection can branch out into other areas, either through some automatic cross-posting function, or some other means. About me dropping support for FIGI-L... no one has yet come forward to offer to take over the regular mailing list, although I have had one offer to help with the Digests. Our machine is going to be moved between buildings sometime in February, and so, it will be down for a period of at least a week. If nobody volunteers for the FIGI-L Moderator's job by then, I can not guarantee that FIGI-L will be active when the IBM 3081 is plugged in again. Like Walter Cronkite used to say, "...and that's the way it is." -- Lee Brotzman (FIGI-L Moderator) -- BITNET: ZMLEB@SCFVM -- Internet: zmleb@scfvm.gsfc.nasa.gov