P3D Re: Re Disabling spamming via mailinglist archive

[Peter Davis <pd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:38 PM 3/9/00, Bob Wier wrote:
> >Well, the *-3D mailinglists are just some of my personal favorites.
> >The other lists, Infrared and Panorama, had no archives and that
> >was the main reason to make one available. While doing this, I just
> >threw *-3d in 'for free' (maybe a little forced by not being satisfied
> >with the browsing, searching, and referencing features of the primary
> >Calcite archive).
>
>I might note that from time to time I've thought about switching
>over to a format for the calcite archives which would allow
>threaded message reading and so forth, but the main problem was/is
>that the software implementations I've looked at to do this require
>one directory entry (inode for you Unix/Linux types :-) for each
>message. This eats up disk space in a hurry when you are looking at
>25,000+ messages. So using webglimpse appears to be a reasonable
>alternative between compactness and accessibility. Being as
>As Calcite is basically a "junk machine" here at the college, there's
>not much opportunity for upgrades except for the support of a few
>very kind people here who have made equipment donations from time to time.


This may be a dumb question, but is there some reason not to move these 
lists to Onelist.com/eGroups.com?  I can think of many advantages, not 
least of which is that eGroups.com is currently offering a $500 bonus if 
you move your large list to their service.

Other advantages include:

1) Separate "reply to sender"/"reply to list" options for each list. (ie, 
make sell-3d a "reply to sender" list)

2) Shared file space for upload, periodic reminder messages, etc.

3) Searchable archives, whose access can be restricted to list members

4) Databases, chat rooms, links pages, etc.


I run a number of lists on these services, and have found them to be 
generally very reliable and easy to use.

By the way, this is not in any way to disparage the superhuman efforts of 
Bob Weir and other 3D moderators in keeping these lists running and 
effective.  I'm just suggesting ways to make the job easier.


-pd


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