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Subject: Re: Upgrade the CCC

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 00:07:23 09/29/04

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On September 29, 2004 at 02:53:42, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On September 29, 2004 at 01:47:50, Aaron Gordon wrote:
>
>>Thats why you assign 'head' moderators. Get other people who are in good
>>standing that wouldn't mind doing this stuff to do it. Have 2 or so mods take
>>care of the more frequent problems, have 2-3 more admins running the board and
>>keeping the peace so to speak, as well as planning nominations (which isn't that
>>often). The message board software can handle the lost password problems as well
>>as the change of email address issue.
>>
>>Should allow you to kick back and take it easy while keeping an eye on
>>everything.
>>
>>I really would like to see the search feature of the new board in action here.
>>It would help out a LOT. There have been countless times I've wanted to look up
>>old posts but couldn't. This would easily solve that.
>
>
>I think your proposal misses the point. The primary reason we are in this
>situation is a lack of funds, not a lack of willingness to put up with
>headaches.
>
>I'm not even sure the situation would be improved overall. The transition is not
>free. Someone has to install and maintain the new software. The bandwidth
>requirements increase. Comparing message indexes of the two boards, the
>bandwidth requirements increase 2x. Comparing messages of approximately equal
>length of content, the bandwidth requirement increases 20x.

How much bandwidth does CCC currently take?  I've heard "alot" and "high" but
that doesn't really pinpoint things.  The $4,400 / 6 months estimate would
essentially be the price of a full T1 right off the hop.  I can't imagine any
text-based forum to come close to using a full T1 -- even in peak login times.

-elc.



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