I wrote:
The point I wish to make is that this sort of thing will continue to
happen as long as GIMPS has significant discussions in independent
media without extensive (and probably not practical)
cross-communication.
This is not necessarily all negative. Along with the needless
On Sat, Jan 25, 2003 at 12:38:35AM -0500, Michael Vang wrote:
Well, to be honest, not much more can be done... As it is now, we have
several mechanisms in place to enable people with dialup access the
ability to log on and get done right quick...
1) There are no heavy graphics usage... (If I
On Saturday 25 January 2003 05:38, Michael Vang wrote:
Well, to be honest, not much more can be done... As it is now, we have
several mechanisms in place to enable people with dialup access the
ability to log on and get done right quick...
What about posting (a digest of) forum messages on
In no particular order...
The correct way to do discussion lists has never really been mail or
web, but news (NNTP). This way everything stays under its own thread,
and no-one has to download the whole page of forum discussions to get
the one extra message at the bottom. An idea, but I suspect
Mikus Grinbergs wrote:
several good ideas
mikus (not looking at the GIMPS forums)
Mikus is just one of the contributors to the Mersenne list discussion
who has not only independently reached some of the same conclusions
posted slightly earlier on the GIMPS Forum, but also come up with new
Recently I wrote:
I asked this in the GIMPS forum, but haven't seen any answer
there yet. So will you please point out what I overlooked?
... to which Brian Beesley replied:
Sorry, I don't read the forum. It's inconvenient expensive for
those of us that have pay-as-you-go dialup
So Mr. Beesley and anyone else who hadn't read the Forum, whatever
their
reasons, _didn't yet know that a major Primenet server software change
had already been discussed in the recent past and had practically been
decided-upon_, because none of that Forum discussion had been reported
to the
