Re: [aclug-L] Mailing List membership

[Jeremy Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

monday's and wednesday's... the earlier the btter.

On 17 Sep 1998, John Goerzen wrote:

> Quite right!
> 
> Look at this:
> 
> -rw-rw-r--   1 daemon   daemon       6800 Mar 31 00:02 aclug-l.9803
> -rw-rw-r--   1 daemon   daemon      39509 Apr 25 10:39 aclug-l.9804
> -rw-rw-r--   1 majordom daemon       6371 May 26 08:52 aclug-l.9805
> -rw-rw-r--   1 majordom daemon     110944 Jun 30 00:13 aclug-l.9806
> -rw-rw-r--   1 majordom daemon      95394 Jul 31 20:26 aclug-l.9807
> -rw-rw-r--   1 majordom daemon     362170 Sep  4 18:29 aclug-l.9808
> -rw-rw-r--   1 majordom daemon     770777 Sep 17 18:04 aclug-l.9809
> 
> That is, in March, there were about 7k of posts.  Now, a bit over
> halfway through September, we have already accumulated over ten times
> that much.  It's quite exciting indeed!
> 
> In addition to this, there have been 108 hits to the archives at
> http://www.complete.org/mailinglists/archives/, not bad for a URL that 
> has been advertised nowhere but here and has only existed for about a
> week.  I'm hoping to get a search engine going soon.  The one that's
> there doesn't work right, and it's non-free, so I'm going to see if
> htDig is going to be powerful enough.  Hope so!
> 
> John
> 
> Jeremy S Johnstone <jsjohnst@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > It is quite amazing how fast this amiling list has gone. In less than six
> > months this list has gone from 2-3 messages a month to over 20 a day.
> > Amazing, and yet Microsoft says Linux has no customer support. Hah, the
> > only difference between Linux CS and Microsoft CS is 1.) It's Free 2.) No
> > LD calls or long hold times 3.) You actually get the answer to your
> > problem. Doesn't it seem like Microsoft is the one without support? 
> 
> Yes!
> 
> Plus, in this list, you get to see a lot of different solutions to the 
> problem -- one person may have one idea, another person a different
> one, etc.  I made my first visit to the Boeing Surplus Center on
> Wednesday thanks to phrostie's hinting that I can find something good
> there.  Didn't find anything I need, but I'll certainly go back next
> week.
> 
> (What days do they get the new stuff again, Keith?  Is it only
> Wednesdays?)
> 
> -- 
> John Goerzen   Linux, Unix consulting & programming   jgoerzen@xxxxxxxxxxxx |
> Developer, Debian GNU/Linux (Free powerful OS upgrade)       www.debian.org |
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