What gives has the list server gone belly up?

[James McDonald]

Net Llama! wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote:
> 
>>James McDonald wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You think this is bad the lusers at work create html signatures that
>>>are about 100kb (all scrolling marquee)
>>>
>>
>>LOL! I know what you mean -- give some people a little power and they
>>begin to abuse it.
>>
>>I was kind of wondering what happened to the traffic too! I remember way
>>back in 1999 when this list was like a fire-hydrant, and we had people
>>like Ric Moore from Red Hat participating and others. Back then, Linux
>>was not as user friendly as it is now.
> 
> 
> Much as I hate to admit it, i think the spirit of the list has died.  New
> SxS submissions have dropped off significantly in the past year.
> 
> I wish that there was a way to get some new membership on this list (in
> addition to the current) which might spark things a bit.
> 

There doesn't seem to be a lot to write about now. Things are mostly 
packaged and ready for use. Now that most installations are a simple 
apt-get update away....

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James McDonald
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