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Re: L-cad is getting irritating!
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Date: 
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:19:31 GMT
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Last is mostly my fault.  I fired off a *bunch* of replies to various
messages, instead of compiling them into just a few messages.

I think I would be most happy if Todd would be willing to create a new
ng for L-CAD.  lugnet.cad.l-cad *sounds* redundant, but it wouldn't
actually *be* redundant.

Steve

On Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:20:50 GMT, "John VanZwieten"
<john_vanzwieten@msn.com> wrote:

Twice this week now I've gotten a message that:
"The distribution of your message dated  Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:02:47 -0600
with
subject "Re: LDAO 2.0.1, et al" has been postponed because the daily message
limit for the L-CAD list (50) has  been exceeded. No action is required from
you;  your message  will be  reprocessed automatically  once the  list owner
releases the list."

Then, for the next 12-24 hours I get no L-Cad messages.

Since when is there a daily message limit?  Why?  This is so irritating, as
it usually happens when I have a burning question for listers.  I know we
went through this discussion before, but perhaps it's now time to give up on
L-Cad and stick with lugnet.cad.  Now that lugnet.cad can be accessed via
newsreader, web-interface, or e-mail, I really don't see the downside to
this anymore.

Actually, the one downside I see is that we can't send binaries to lugnet,
but plenty of people complain about binaries on L-Cad, so perhaps this isn't
such a problem.

The upside includes:  (1)no more "message limit" or other service
disruptions--Lugnet has proved very reliable and fast.  (2)multiple avenues
of access--I couldn't respond to L-Cad questions over the weekend because I
was away from e-mail, but I could post to lugnet.dat via a newsreader.
(3)defragmentation of the L-Cad community--why have to check two separate
sources for info?  Why have to post announcements, models, etc. to two
places (and wonder if people will be ticked off by the double-posting)?  Why
wonder if the person who can answer your question is more likely to read
L-cad or lugnet.cad?  (4)advantages of newsgroups for those who choose to
view it that way:  threading, archiving, etc.

I also think that a more thriving lugnet.cad will be better at bringing new
blood into the community.  If we can draw in several new part authors and a
programmer or two, the whole community benefits.

What do you others think?  (And don't bother posting this on L-cad yet, it's
still down!)

-John Van





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(...) I agree. I haven't been following the discussions concerning this on the lugnet.admin.general ng lately, though. There's so many words there, like. But count me in as a supporter of the ng. This needs to be discussed on the L-CAD list, of (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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  L-cad is getting irritating!
 
Twice this week now I've gotten a message that: "The distribution of your message dated Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:02:47 -0600 with subject "Re: LDAO 2.0.1, et al" has been postponed because the daily message limit for the L-CAD list (50) has been (...) (26 years ago, 21-Jan-99, to lugnet.cad)

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