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Re: Why dont we make a list of what works?
> > What's wrong with the list on http://vorlon.mit.edu/ardi/proglist.html
Well, I'll start by giving something that is wrong with this list; I've
been lame and haven't updated it in a while whilst working on the new
engine. I _hope_ to get it done next weekend, no guarantees though...
[I want to get it done before the next beta if possible.] But, moving on:
> There are several people from this list which only have email, dont want
> to connect to vorlon because it's conection is too slow, or just want to
> waste on-line time doing it.
As for the first point, true (although if they don't have web access
they must at least have FTP access, or else how are they downloading the
betas?) It'd probably be a good idea to keep the databases in sync, if
there are two databases. Once the new web query engine is written, though,
I don't think it'll be too difficult to add a mail interface to it. It's
definitely a good idea and something I'll look into after the new web
interface is up and running.
As for the second point, have you had any trouble connecting to vorlon?
It's on a 10 Mb/s ethernet that goes to a 100 Mb/s FDDI ring that goes to
several T3's to the MCI, Sprint, and BBNplanet backbones. So, problems
with connectivity are likely to be on the other side; I have heard problems
from people using the transatlantic links because they are so overloaded.
Since you are on a different continent, perhaps you might want to mirror
the database on vorlon? (The new engine has some provisions for this.) You
could just run the mail interface, or you could have the web interface too.
(Requirements would be PERL, lots of disk space, and access to the sendmail
aliases file.)
> You only have to take a look at the amount of programs on the vorlon
> list, I think that there are less programs reported there than people
> on this list, wich means that people just uses programs and try excutor,
> but no report their results through Vorlon.
There's what's on the list, and about 20 or 30 more that I have queued
to add. [In response to usage question] Since Oct 8 1995 there have been
accesses to the list on vorlon from 3175 distinct machines.
--Jered
jered@mit.edu
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