RE: [cobalt-users] SOT: Top-posting

["Erica Douglass" <erica@xxxxxxxxxx>]

-----Original Message-----
From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David J.
Duffner
Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 2:04 PM
To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] SOT: Top-posting

>-----Original Message-----
>From: cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>[mailto:cobalt-users-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thom LaCosta
>Sent: Sunday, May 04, 2003 4:38 PM
>To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] SOT: Top-posting
>
>For a long time the list has been operating under the "gentleman's
>agreement" concept.  As far as it NOT operating on a cobalt piece of
>hardware, I'm thrilled, as the Cobalt implimentation of Majordomo is
>punishment for system admin and list members alike.

	100% agreement there, I'd discovered that little 
tidbit when I went straight to the source to find out
how THEY managed to get Mailman working for this List.
Lo and behold, they didn't.  They went and got another
box <G>.  Now while I may be out of turn, I was getting
the impression from that same source that it's not
even a piece of SUN hardware they're using - which left
me even more without a clue as to solving that mailman
problem on my end.

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I didn't realize that it was that much of a secret. I was there when
they built it -- they used a standard version of Red Hat (whatever the
current version was at the time) on a desktop box. It was a PIII/800 or
so... one of the ones that our IT department had just ordered. This was
way before Cobalt got bought out by Sun, so there was no reason to use
Sun hardware. As I understood it, the RaQ's implementation of Majordomo
made it nearly impossible to install Mailman, so we used one of the
desktop boxes that we already had. 

Remember that the RaQs were 450MHz at the time, as well. To the
engineers, who wanted rapid deployment of a box that was to be used
SOLELY for Mailman, the RaQs just weren't suitable. 

Our company mail server, intranet, extranet, and external web servers
all ran on RaQs, however. I know because I was the one who built,
maintained, and supported a lot of them. ;)

Erica Douglass
Lead Web Developer
Simpli, Inc.