Fastest way to see new messages
[1/9] from: Carl:rebol at: 10-Jul-2003 12:40
Just a reminder:
The fastest way to see new messages to this email list is to view them
a http://cobalt.reboltech.com/~lister Messages are posted shortly after
arrival at the server, so they don't suffer from the outgoing email delays.
With regard to those email delays, it appears that they are the result of
getting bottlenecked on slow responses from other servers. For example
right now there are six sendmail (mail delivery) subprocesses that are
probably going to timeout in a few minutes due to delays:
32663 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA21791 brainbyte.com.: user open
2216 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA02215 m1.dnsix.com.: user open
2776 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
2805 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback01.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
2890 ? S 0:00 sendmail: server fallback02.mail.atl.earthlink.net [2
3177 ? S 0:00 sendmail: MAA03175 brcceb.bariloche.com.ar.: user ope
Those six take half of the current allocation of sendmail delivery daemons.
Depending on the state of the connection, some of these may not timeout
for up to 10 minutes. In the meantime a few more incoming messages may
have been received, queuing another 500-2000 outgoing messages. And
that's without even considering the bounce and spam traffic that's also being
handled.
Over the last few years, the situation has gotten a lot worse due to spam.
IMHO, email is dead. Systems like IOS or AltME are the future for private
communication. For public communication, maybe we should add a
Blog to rebol.com? I investigated it last year, but was too busy to put it into
operation. Another method might be to add a Web form interface to this
discussion list.
-Carl
[2/9] from: tserpa::earthlink::net at: 10-Jul-2003 16:13
A blog would be great for publishing RT related news. Making updates
available in RSS would allow us to use news aggregators and obviate the need
to constantly check the RT site.
One solution to circumvent outgoing smtp from RT and it's related pitfalls,
is to continue to accept posts through email and\or a web-based form (or
even a Reblet) and then make posts available with RSS. I guess that has
already been proposed - creating an RSS feed for the new web archive.
Although, you need to take into account the bandwidth consumed by the 500 to
2000 or whatever the number is of aggregators that are polling your server
every few minutes.
I find sites like the one below to be very useful, but this is more of a
collection of individual blogs - so I'm not sure if it can spark any ideas.
http://www.markme.com/mxna/index.cfm
Also, I'm not sure that any aggregators exist that can gather related posts
and display them in a threaded view. Maybe a nice little Rebol based news
reader would be in order.
Ted
[3/9] from: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Dec-2003 22:23
On 11-Jul-03, [Carl--rebol--com] wrote:
> Over the last few years, the situation has gotten a lot worse due to
> spam. IMHO, email is dead. Systems like IOS or AltME are the future
> for private communication.
One problem with the growing list of different means of discussing
REBOL is that communication starts to get fragmented. Spam sucks, but
I don't think email's dead yet. Who can afford to turn their email
off and tell those in their address list to use software X, Y, or Z
instead? (No matter how much they'd like to;)
> For public communication, maybe we should
> add a Blog to rebol.com? I investigated it last year, but was too
> busy to put it into operation.
I'd recommend http://www.livejournal.com/ as quite good for blogging.
(It has a GNU license - see http://www.livejournal.com/doc/server )
Can be used to create private sections, communities and has RSS
support. There's also quite a few third-party front-ends to it, (as
apposed to its browser front-end), though none written in REBOL yet.
> Another method might be to add a Web
> form interface to this discussion list.
I'd call that useful, but not an alternative to a blog.
--
Carl Read
[4/9] from: carl:cybercraft at: 24-Dec-2003 22:23
On 11-Jul-03, Ted Serpa wrote:
> I find sites like the one below to be very useful, but this is more
> of a collection of individual blogs - so I'm not sure if it can
> spark any ideas.
> http://www.markme.com/mxna/index.cfm
> Also, I'm not sure that any aggregators exist that can gather
> related posts and display them in a threaded view.
I'm not sure if it's what you mean, but http://www.livejournal.com/
has "Friends" pages, where posts from any selected LJ blog, community
or RSS feed appear in the order they're created. So LJ users choose
exactly what blogs and such they wish to keep up with.
--
Carl Read
[5/9] from: gchiu:compkarori at: 11-Jul-2003 11:43
On Thu, 10 Jul 2003 16:13:35 -0500
"Ted Serpa" <[tserpa--earthlink--net]> wrote:
>A blog would be great for publishing RT related news.
> Making updates
>available in RSS would allow us to use news aggregators
>and obviate the need
>to constantly check the RT site.
There is a Rebol blog here:
http://www.compkarori.com/vanilla/
I've thought about a RSS feed, but haven't got round to it
yet.
--
Graham Chiu
[6/9] from: robert:muench:robertmuench at: 11-Jul-2003 11:16
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]
<<quoted lines omitted: 4>>
> IMHO, email is dead. Systems like IOS or AltME
> are the future for private communication.
Hi, well those two suffer one fundamental feature: Offline mode! I need
to write messages offline and asynchron. Further I need threading to
keep track of all communication. Therefore mailinglists are the most
efficient form of communication. If this can be cloned, good! If not
this is a major problem at least to me. We still have news, how about a
news-server?
I don't see a value in replacing existing technology just to use new
technology. What do I gain? Robert
[7/9] from: ingo::2b1::de at: 11-Jul-2003 16:19
I don't like "Me too's", that said, ME TOO!
Email may have some shortcomings, but for me it's still the best.
Adding to what Robert stated, it is universially available: I can read
it from any platform, I can go to any internet caf=E9 and read my email
using a webmail service.
Now show me how this is possible with IOS or AltME.
Kind regards,
Ingo
Robert M. Muench wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: [rebol-bounce--rebol--com] [mailto:[rebol-bounce--rebol--com]]
<<quoted lines omitted: 12>>
> I don't see a value in replacing existing technology just to use new
> technology. What do I gain? Robert
--
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YES! That's just me, just being! http://www.2b1.de/
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[8/9] from: maximo:meteorstudios at: 11-Jul-2003 10:46
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ingo Hohmann [mailto:[ingo--2b1--de]]
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 10:19 AM
> To: [rebol-list--rebol--com]
> Subject: [REBOL] Re: Fastest way to see new messages
>
> I don't like "Me too's", that said, ME TOO!
I second the motion ;-)
> Email may have some shortcomings, but for me it's still the best.
> Adding to what Robert stated, it is universially available: I
> can read
> it from any platform, I can go to any internet caf=E9 and read my email
> using a webmail service.
the reason I prefer the mail list is that I don't have time to track information in several
methods or apps at a time. mailing lists are passive-aggressive... they ALL pop-up
in the same mail box. I don't care its slow, I'm sure Carl will hate me for saying this,
but I almost like the fact that the information trickles down at a reasonable rate.
if we could have a mailling list send of all the discussions on alternative channels,
then I'd subscribe to that. At least I get notified when new stuff appears and If I
want to speak, then I'd just log on the discussion and post my stuff by whatever means...
my two cents
-max
[9/9] from: petr:krenzelok:trz:cz at: 11-Jul-2003 16:47
Ingo Hohmann wrote:
> I don't like "Me too's", that said, ME TOO!
>
> Email may have some shortcomings, but for me it's still the best.
> Adding to what Robert stated, it is universially available: I can read
> it from any platform, I can go to any internet café and read my email
> using a webmail service.
>
> Now show me how this is possible with IOS or AltME.
rebol browser plug-in anyone? ;-)
btw: Altme should be possible - no? It does not require you to install
anything, just download, save and run ... but I understand your point ...
-pekr-
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