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- From: beh@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu (various Howellses)
- Newsgroups: alt.irc
- Subject: Re: patriot.mit.edu (vanity server alert)
- Date: 21 Dec 92 21:00:53
- Organization: Internet access via the Free Software Foundation
- Lines: 31
- Message-ID: <BEH.92Dec21210053@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu>
- References: <1992Dec11.155558.2035@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
- <1992Dec11.194808.26570@njitgw.njit.edu> <avalon.724924814@coombs>
- <1992Dec21.173710.4072@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu's message of 21 Dec 92 17:37:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec21.173710.4072@njitgw.njit.edu> lcm1501@hertz.njit.edu (Lawrence C. Mc Abee) writes:
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- >
- >> patriot.mit.edu is not a vanity server. If you look at how slow
- >> irc.mit.edu is (as well as csd.bu.edu) you will understand why it is
- >> needed.
- >
- >The only reason csd is ever slow as a server is because it gets used (oh
- >and once in a while, some fool runs pagemaker or something serious on it!
- >Imagine that!).
- >
- >avalon
- >
- >say no to servers with less than 10 regular users
-
- Avalon, that is just not the point, and you know it. csd
- is/was? a slow machine. Yes irc gets low priority, no shit.
-
-
- As well it should be... it's a lame thing, and it what the d*mned machines
- are for is to work on.. at least that's what I would hope.
-
- --Nancy, not the other one this time
- (a musician may be useless, but we're useless on our own time and money)
-
- --
- If it's me, it's not the other one. If it's the other one, it's not me.
- But then again, we're basically one and the same... oh bother, we're
- --Various Howellses (Bruce and/or Nancy)
- beh@gnu.ai.mit.edu
-