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(...) I did not mean ridicule anyone or anything. I feel like ridiculing someone right now, but I am too busy... Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) This is a key point - I think Todd covered it. Rules do exist, and they should be respected. However, enforcing them in a "jobs worth" manner just alienates everyone. If we all sifted through each and every post and winged about infractions at (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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Lorbaat wrote: ..... (...) Is there any possibility that the complaint, or the system itself are somehow ridiculous at least a bit (especially when stretched)? Selçuk (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) No. Depending on what the processes are doing, you can have dozens of httpd processes all impacting the load average very negigibly, especially if they're blocked on I/O writes to the socket. --Todd (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Umm, isn't that what MaxClients is for? The only thing I use load triggerd shutoff for is the Virtual Explorer, since someone could (and has) pointed a rude paralell robots.txt ignoring web-sucker at it and caused 40+ povray renderings to (...) (26 years ago, 15-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes: <snip> (...) Thanks Todd, I am glad to see another voice of reason in this. Jude What possessed the first person to eat marmite? xFUT lugnet.off-topic.fun (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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It seems to me that every so often someone posts about not being able to get to www.ldraw.org. I'm concerned with some problems that users of the site may have getting to it - its definitely frustrating every time a site goes down. One thing I'd (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw, lugnet.general)
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(...) Thanks. My fault. I launched a process which forked a bunch of times to do some updates and things. I noticed it too, and raised the threshold. I set the threshold at a low conservative value initially. It's still a bit conservative now, but (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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Just a couple of minutes ago (5:02pm Eastern by my system clock) I received this error message: Server temporarily unavailable due to heavy load. Please try again in a few minutes. several times while trying to load the page at URL: (URL) saw some (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) Eh. I don't know how clearly this came through in my original post, but I really don't think what Scott posted was off-topic enough or sustained enough to complain about. My main point was merely that his reaction was fairly typical of any (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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| | straying off-topic & marmites (was: Re: the best laid plans of mice and men)
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(...) I don't think Scott named anyone in particular in connection with that label. He may even have been referring to a brief mail that I sent him. (...) I think this is best dropped. I don't think Scott broke any of the T&C, either. The closest (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.admin.terms)
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(...) LOL!!! Yeah, it saw that everything was overpriced by 30% and it wicked choked! :) No, actually the FAOS webserver is acting squiffy lately. If you hit the reload button a few times, it seems to display the page about 1 out of 5 times. Same (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Interesting that you're bemused enough to complain about how oppressed you are, but not enough to do something to change the situation. Interesting also that you chose to respond only to the inflammatory parts of my post, rather than the real (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) For the record, I am neither "bent out of shape" or "crying".... but just bemused. (...) on (...) I had it for my breakfast this morning, and I liked it so much I had a second helping. It may not sound all that great, but I do know what is in (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) retort? (...) is (...) to (...) Just to interject, I am the one who brought the discussion to its off-topic status. The original marmite comment was in a post script that Scott wrote in an on-topic message. (...) ^ ^ ^ ^ A post script just (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) His retort was, at least, posted to the proper group. (...) No, nothing compels you to, but if you're annoyed by an off-topic post, this is the place to say something about it. Instead of getting all bent out of shape when someone points out (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) I think Todd probably needs to add a catagory for over 100%. I don't know if Todd's process chocked when it saw the FAO prices or what. Actually I don't know why Todd bothered putting FAO in the list anyway. There prices are the worst (At (...) (26 years ago, 14-Sep-00, to lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) The casual observer usually isn't reading adminstrivia, so won't see my retort - which, by the way, wasn't specifically targeted at you, or even at the (3 or so?) off-topic messages in the specific thread I replied. I've noticed a fair amount (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) lugnet.lego.direct, (...) Anything which keeps marmite off my screen helps. ;-) For the record, I really am in favour of compartmentalisation and all that. However, I am also aware that it tends to fragment threads (especially if one read via (...) (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: the best laid plans of mice and men
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(...) Scott, would this have helped? --Todd (26 years ago, 13-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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