From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: George France Subject: Re: List active ? Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 22:52:32 -0400 Sender: linux-alpha-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200310102252.32137.france@handhelds.org> References: <200309290725.h8T7PBsl020733@indianer.linux-kernel.at> <200310101709.27220.france@handhelds.org> <002c01c38fa6$38783150$6e17a8c0@Wellwisher> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <002c01c38fa6$38783150$6e17a8c0@Wellwisher> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Alan Bort <333101@personal.net.py>, Oliver Pitzeier , James Stevenson Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org On Friday 10 October 2003 11:17 pm, Alan Bort wrote: > And lets be realistic, there are not many Alpha left in this world, There are many Alphas remaining. Many that run Linux. Many more that run Tru64 and OpenVMS. You can still buy shinny new alpha systems. Alpha is going away, but it is not gone yet. >and the > peoplke in the position of having one do not need much help... I mean, > alphaservers are usually used in big companies to handle databases or > stuff, so, the admins of those servers really know a lot about these > things, or at least know how to investigate... so they don't use the lists > unless it's necessary. > or they have service agreements with HP. > Besides, It's nice that this list is low traffic, otherwise it would be a > little disencouraging for users to subscribe (gettin 50 mails a day... and > most of them mails you are not interested on reading is really annoying... > don't you think?) I do like low volume lists, but the volume is so low at times, I tend to miss most of the messages. Best Regards, --George