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From: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Subject: Re: MBone/IP Multicast for NetBSD 0.9
Message-ID: <MARK_WEAVER.93Dec11091716@tonto-slip8.cis.brown.edu>
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Reply-To: Mark_Weaver@brown.edu
Organization: Brown University Department of Computer Science
Date: Sat, 11 Dec 1993 14:17:16 GMT
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cmaeda@cs.washington.edu writes:
> Here are IP Multicast patches for NetBSD 0.9.
>
> To get mbone running, install these and then get the mbone
> binaries for BSDI from ftp.ee.lbl.gov in bsd386-mcastbin.tar.Z.
>
> I've tested the sd and nv binaries on NetBSD and they work.
>
> [300k file deleted]
I read news using a 14.4kbps SLIP connection, and I consider myself
lucky. My newsreader only froze for 4 minutes while I entered the
c.o.3.dev newsgroup. Anyone who was over a 2400 baud line would have
waited about 21 minutes to read your message.
In the future, I have three pieces of advice for you:
1) Don't post news articles larger than 30k. This is very standard.
Split your file up into pieces. This way, if someone doesn't want
to read your message, they only have to wait through 30k of it,
then they can just skip the rest. Notice the way the ***BSD FAQ
is posted.
2) Use gzip. Your compressed file was about 220k. With gzip, that
same file was only 126k. Every NetBSD-0.9 system comes with
gzip.
3) For something big that most people don't care about, find an
ftp site to carry it, upload it, and then just post an announcement
that tells where it is.
You pissed a lot of people off today, including me.
Mark
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