Re: URL wierdness...

2003-06-03 Thread Jody Belka
IMAP HILLWAY\ said: Now... this works fine for almost every URL I can think of apart from 2: http://www.acxiom.co.uk http://www.acxiom.com These 2 both return 500 Internal Server Error but work fine if you go to them with a browser! bit of checking and it seems that they're using the

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Jonathan Peterson wrote: Is one allowed to run very small low traffic mailing lists from penderel? Come to that are there any FAQs guidelines on use of your trusty penderel account? I think I've suggested that all things penderel like should be evalutated on a case by case

Re: URL wierdness...

2003-06-03 Thread Andy Williams \(IMAP HILLWAY\)
- Original Message - From: Jody Belka [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 2:29 PM Subject: Re: URL wierdness... IMAP HILLWAY\ said: Now... this works fine for almost every URL I can think of apart from 2: http://www.acxiom.co.uk

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 04:14:23PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Also, bear in mind that I've made public commitments in the past to moving penderel over to siesta when it's ready. Be prepared for mailman to go bye bye at some point, even if it technically possible to run them at the same time.

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: I'm making the distinction between using another piece of software (which you're advocating with sound reasons) and actually *un*installing an existing, known working, mature piece of software others might wish to use. I was mearly implying that

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 10:57:37PM +0100, Mark Fowler wrote: Be prepared for mailman to go bye bye at some point, even if it technically possible to run them at the same time. I was mearly implying that mailman would move from being something that is very activly supported (as it is now) to

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread the hatter
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Mark Fowler wrote: In future I shall not bother warning people, less someone jumps down my throat. Excellent, it'll be an even more enchanting surprise for everyone when all the other shells are pulled, and we all start using the perl shell. Vaguely more on-topic though, I

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 11:02:43PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: Whilst that doesn't cause mailman to become broken (as you point out), it does mean that now two mailing list systems are being supported. Whilst that support may be zero effort most of the time, as we all know the discovery of

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Dirk Koopman
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:27, Dirk Koopman wrote: But the performance of the forking miniserver is a worry - I've implemented a preforking version and although this is better the server still melts. Previously I've implemented this component using Java threads and I also considered

Dotcom Boom History

2003-06-03 Thread Dave Cross
A while ago I had a discussion in a pub[1] with various london.pm people about how it would be interesting to have a record of people's memories of the Golden Age of the Dotcom Boom in London. A few months ago I started a discussion about it on the list (see

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Nigel Wetters
Dirk Koopman wrote: I hate to say this but, frankly, this is not (imho) a pure perl application. I have spent quite a bit of time fiddling around with perl as webserver type thing and done some benchmarks. Me too! I coded a few Perl implementations of the servers from Comer Stevens [0]. The

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Simon Wistow
On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:53:08PM +, the hatter said: That'd be handy. With mailman gone, I'm sure no one will need python any more, anyway. We can get also get rid of sed/awk/grep/etc. Except all of those which gnu configure and make require to actually make perl, obviously. Ah

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread alex
Me too! and me: http://www.twoshortplanks.com: :-) a I coded a few Perl implementations of the servers from Comer Stevens [0]. The experience was extremely frustrating as performance stank and under high load zombies always became a problem, whatever reaping code I used. I guess

Re: [Ab]use of penderel

2003-06-03 Thread Mark Fowler
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003, Paul Makepeace wrote: snip misunderstanding clearning up And lo, it was proved once again that email sucks, and misunderstandings happen when people like me write badly worded emails (twice, in this case.) As I have stated many times before I is most defiantly crap. Mark.

Re: Dotcom Boom History

2003-06-03 Thread Jonathan Peterson
Damn. And I was going to do some work today, too... Dave Cross wrote: A while ago I had a discussion in a pub[1] with various london.pm people about how it would be interesting to have a record of people's memories of the Golden Age of the Dotcom Boom in London. A few months ago I started a

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Shevek
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Nigel Wetters wrote: Dirk Koopman wrote: I coded a few Perl implementations of the servers from Comer Stevens [0]. The experience was extremely frustrating as performance stank and under high load zombies always became a problem, whatever reaping code I used. I guess

Re: Reaping process...

2003-06-03 Thread Toby Corkindale
On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 12:32:41PM +0100, Shevek wrote: On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Nigel Wetters wrote: Dirk Koopman wrote: I coded a few Perl implementations of the servers from Comer Stevens [0]. The experience was extremely frustrating as performance stank and under high load zombies