ml> i've always wanted _my_ listing in... otherwise i would never have    
    ml> sent the information ;)   
      
    BF>    What information would that be?   
      
   i sent you the information and you've already added it to the list... what   
   else do you want?   
      
    BF> You haven't been all too eager to give me the proper privileges to    
    BF> access your server.   
      
   really? i have not gotten /anything/ from you as denoted in the +GETACCESS+   
   area... not one thing at all...   
      
    BF>    Yes, I probably haven't jumped through all the "getaccess" hoops   
    BF> on your system that you expect the average John Doe to jump   
      
   well, bingo! i'm not going to add anyone until they ask me with the necessary   
   information as requested...   
      
    BF> through, but a friendly netmail to me, telling me that you've added   
    BF> me as a user just the same, would have been highly appreciated.    
      
   it would have been nice if someone had told me and others about this   
   expectation of yours instead of just assuming that we would do such a thing...   
   geez :?   
      
    BF> I do that a lot to fidonet persons that I want to invite to this    
    BF> new JamNNTPD adventure of ours.   
      
   jamnntpd adventure?   
      
    BF>    But, just now I tried to add FIDONEWS to my subscriptions on   
    BF> your server, and the 10,000 headers in the echo took a staggering   
    BF> 45 minutes to "download" at an average speed of far less than   
    BF> 1kB/s. From e.g. Paul's or Tommi's servers, this takes just a few   
    BF> minutes, and from Ross' server, the fastest JamNNTPd server in the   
    BF> known fido world, it takes less than a minute to download 10k   
    BF> headers.    
      
   you may have hit during a busy time when the machine was banging nearly 100%   
   CPU... most of the time, it is idle... but then again, i have seen google   
   wading thru my gallery these last few days... you might have been trying   
   during that time period... i dunno...   
      
    BF>    I have absolutely no idea about how long it takes to download   
    BF> 10k headers from my server, but if it takes 45 minutes, I'll have   
    BF> to seriously reconsider my professional position as a computer   
    BF> consultant.   
      
   hahaha... i hear ya...   
      
    BF>    How *are* you connected to the world, mark? Via modem....?    
      
   if you call a DSL modem a "modem" then yeah... i have 3M down and 768K up...    
      
    BF>    Needless to say, I cannot recommend anyone to get fidonet access   
    BF> from such an extremely slow server, I hope you understand that?   
      
   sorry... no i'm not... don't like it, don't use it... the server is not   
   slow... it is not a dualy anything... it is not a +500mhz and it doesn't have   
   gobs and gobs of RAM but it works and works well... in fact, it has been   
   working perfectly well since ~2000 with only one problem that was corrected by   
   moving one jumper on one drive that had been set like that for years before...   
      
    BF> Feel free to consult Ross in order to speed up your server to at   
    BF> least decent speeds.   
      
   better yet, how amount sending some $$$ for the newer equipment it would   
   take... sadly, though, it would likely break the rest of the setup :(   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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