Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

From: Bijan Soleymani (bijan_at_psq.com)
Date: 08/31/03

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    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 14:32:26 -0400
To: Arnt Karlsen <arnt@c2i.net>

    On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 03:30:14PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
    > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 18:58:52 +1200,
    > cr <cr@orcon.net.nz> wrote in message
    > <200308310703.h7V72uxj010926@dbmail-mx2.orcon.co.nz>:
    >
    > > On Sunday 31 August 2003 14:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
    > >
    > > > > The London Underground was originally designed to allow through
    > > > > running from the mainline railways to stations more convenient for
    > > > > central London than the mainline termini, which were very much on
    > > > > the outskirts of the London of the time. There are several
    > > > > connections between the two systems, and the "suburbs" end of
    > > > > several Underground routes is reached over main line track, so
    > > > > Underground drivers on such routes have to know two sets of
    > > > > operating rules, Underground rules and national rules.
    > > >
    > > > ..this sounds like a _very_ good time to pour a shipload of concrete
    > > > onto those wintendo-style dual rule tracks, to replace the nice hard
    > > > rock that _should_ have separated those two track systems.
    > >
    > > Now that's nonsense. The operating rules are basically the same for
    > > both systems, there's no major difference. And the trains are no
    > > more different than, say, an express passenger and a slow goods, which
    > > have always shared the tracks with a good degree of safety for 175
    > > years.
    > >
    > > It also makes all sorts of sense to extend Underground services on to
    > > less-busy mainline branches where the traffic patterns justify it.
    >
    > On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 04:35:55 -0700,
    > Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote in message
    > <20030831113555.GI8074@ursine.ca>:
    >
    > > Why? Passenger and freight peacefully coexist on tracks worldwide.
    >
    > ...as does airliners and high rises. You both ignore how
    > war criminals and terrorists work; they _break_ the rules.

    What you say seems to imply that the solution to that problem is to
    either get planes to fly on the ground or to get rid of high rises :)

    Bijan 

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