On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 16:56:06 +0100, Tony Firshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 at 15:58:07, François Van Emelen wrote: (ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Tony Firshman wrote:How d*****d disappointing.
We got a page up on http://www.firshman.co.uk/
on last Saturday during the show at Roundwood with mug shots of everyone
there.
Darren sent an email to this list telling everyone to look, but no
sign
of it.<snip> I didn't see his email on this list.
I didn't see his email on the list either. The fact of the matter is that since the move to quanta.org.uk the list has gotten VERY unreliable and extremely slow. I do not know if this is because of the backbone the server sits in, the connection, or if the list is hosted at somebody's own machine via ADSL or whatnot, but the fact is that an email I send now, may come back 2 or more hours later (average for me is about 1 1/2 hour). Many times messages get lost, service is disrupted etc. etc.
I do not know what the solution should be, maybe even a moderated newsgroup to allow access to more people, the fact of the matter is however that I don't think that the current situation is pleasant. I believe I speak from most of the over-the-pond QLers in saying that access to ql-users has been frustrating to say the list since the move.
Spam has not really been reduced (okay we don't get posts in here anymore) but our addresses are out there anyway, so why don't either switch do a different format (newsgroup), server or anything else.
Other alternatives like QL-Chat have been shut off (QL-Chat was actually the most responsive of all mail lists).
One other problem to point out is that with the current setup of both QL- Users and QL-developers mail headers are not proper (ie some programs that have the ability to understand them ie. Opera M2) cannot distinguish ql- users/developers posts from regular mail and therefore organisation of our inbox is out of the window. (Note here that even QLhardware at yahoo groups provides standard headers and can be picked out by these few programs that can understand the differences).
Finally I think that we at the very least need a backup mailing list for purposes of communication when ql-users/developers break down (like in the recent days)
Any comments?
Phoebus
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