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From: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth
Subject: Re: ForthNet articles backlogged.
Summary: Backlog My )*(, It's An Avalanche!
Keywords: help, stop, please, AAARRRGGGGHHHH!
Message-ID: <15395@well.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 90 00:14:59 GMT
References: <willett!dwp@UUNET.UU.NET> <9001042128.AA21456@jade.berkeley.edu>
Reply-To: jax@well.UUCP (Jack J. Woehr)
Organization: Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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In article <9001042128.AA21456@jade.berkeley.edu> ZMLEB@SCFVM.BITNET (Lee Brotzman) writes:
>Doug Philips <willett!dwp@UUNET.UU.NET> 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.  ...
>
>   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?).


	Logged on today ... 108 new messages in comp.lang.forth.

	Folks, we gotta talk about this.

	This is a problem long forseen. Here's what is happening:

	First came ECFB and WCFB. Then NCFB BCFB and RCFB, all exchanging
message bases with their PCBoard-based networking software. There remain
of these three: ECFB, BCFB, and RCFB, but these three now network around
the world their FORTH conference via MetroLink.

	THEN >>> Came GEnie Forth Interest Group RoundTable. 16 Categories
featuring hundreds of topics. These started being fed indiscriminately
into the xCFB ForthNet. As SYSOP of RCFB, I was forced to drop a networked
conference to keep from drowning under the load, but I kept most of them.

	Now this chatty, anarchic mishmosh is being ported to the Net.

	The sysops of GEnie are open to suggestion. (Ruffer, you getting
this?)

	MY  SUGGESTION :::


	ONE SINGLE SOLITARY ported GEnie conference to comp.lang.forth,

	If you want to have multiple threads, we're going to have to
switch to software that supports this (not available on GEnie)
such as AKCS which runs under System V, which allows different
threads from one usenet group to appear as different BBS topics.

	BUT AS IT IS THIS IS OUT OF HAND! Right? HuH? Woof!

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