Author: Joachim Rang
Date: 13:43:12 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. bandwidth is cheap, that can't be the problem. A standard server with 50-100 GB Bandwidth and a decent proc should be fine and such a server cost no more than 99 $ from a solid ISP. regards Joachim
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