Re: Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again

[Tony Butler <lists@xxxxxxx>]

Same here - does anyone actually use the web interface for reading
messages?

As for the files areas etc, well someone could host them on their website -
eg
automatedhome could have an area for user contributed files, as it's not
entirely divorced from the list now is it?

--
Tony



> ----- Message from chris@xxxxxxx ---------
>     Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 09:11:25 -0000
>     From: Chris Bond <chris@xxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>  Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again
>       To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
>
> Personally i'd prefer a mailing list myself :)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben McCormack" <ben.mccormack@xxxxxxx>
> To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 9:10 AM
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test Again
>
>
> > I know that is may be a radical idea, but could we consider
moving to a
> > 'message board' system like avforums?
> >
> > Simply, downsides are that posts are not send via email
> > Upsides, you can have different forums and new users can just
have a
> > browse around.
> >
> > Ben 'Putting think flameproof suite on'
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Stuart Poulton [mailto:stuart.poulton@xxxxxxx]
> > Sent: 28 February 2003 09:07
> > To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [ukha_d] Yahoo Situation - WAS - RE: Re: OT: Test
Again
> >
> >
> > To perhaps put things into perspective as to why you wouldn't
want this
> > on your ADSL line.
> >
> >
> > On average last year the list moved ~2900 messages a month.
> > The average message size for January 2003 was 4KBytes
> > The list currently has 850 members.
> >
> > I recieve my e-mail as plain text. So I'm going to ad 20% to
allow for
> > those with HTML e-mail.
> >
> > 2900 x 4KB = 11.4 MB
> >
> > 11.4MB x 850 = 9.5GB
> >
> > 9.5GB + 20% = 11.3GB
> >
> > 11.3GB / 30 = 385MB / Day on average
> >
> > Since ADSL can only send at 128Kbit/s MAX = 1GB / Day.
> >
> > Of course some days are heavier than others. It's clear from this
that
> > messages would arrive more slowly than from yahoo on a bad day.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Stuart
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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