Conference 7.286::digital

    I remember the circumstances around which the original injunction
    was written.  At that time, it was absolutely necessary to make such
    a statement, because users of HUMAN hardly got their work done.
    It was necessary (at that time) to make people work around Maynard's
    working hours.
    
    Things may be the same or different now; I don't know.
    
  --Simon
    

Back when we got hit with the original heavy traffic, we got great
emergency assistance from the NOTES developers. They introduced a
mechanism that limits the maximum number of notes links. This has allowed
us to manage the notes load on our system uniformly on a world-wide basis.
It also ensures that we have DECnet links left for real work.

However, the load keeps creeping up. We were hitting the 16 link limit all
the time. I upped the limit to 24 for notes (increasing the total DECnet
links, etc.). Again, we keep bumping into the limit. The message you get
is "Network Partner Exitted."

The new problem is that we have other conferences on this system. Some are
used for product design and support. These conferences become inaccessible
when DIGITAL has too much access load. Perhaps the NOTES developers will
implement what we really need which is per-conference link limiting. Then
we would also get a user-useful message.

Until then, please be considerate, especially if you want our product
developments to proceed in a timely fashion. Thank you.

    Considering the popularity and relative importance of this conference,
    how about putting it up for adoption so that it can continue to be used
    in a reasonable fashion on a more hospitable machine? 
    
    -joe tomkowitz

I wonder whether an East-coast working hours only policy is fair to
people who don't have terminals (and free time) at home.

Martin.

	As hard as it is to get into this notesfile, you'd think that it
    must have all sorts of noting going on in here.  I've been trying to
    access this conference off and on for a couple of days now without
    success (this is typical too).  I finally get in and there are a
    whopping 4 new notes/replies to read.

	Then I noticed that HUMAN has the following conferences all
    stuffed on here:
			 ETIQUETTE
			 FONT_ARCHITECTURE
			 HANNAH
			 IDEAS
			 KERMIT
			 LEFTIES
			 NOTERS_SIG
			 NOTES_DIG
			 NO_SMOKING
			 PERSONAL_NOTES
			 PICK_OS
			 PRINTING_MODEL
			 SECURITY_INFORMATION
			 SECURITY_POLICY
			 SYSNOTES

	...you'd think that maybe with the recent Win Hindle memo which
    specifies the use of notesfiles as a first choice for information by
    the field that the DIGITAL notesfile itself might be placed on a system
    with a little more network bandwidth.

				   -davo

p.s.	And no, I don't have a system for you to use (not right now anyway).

    I'll let someone else respond to the "bandwidth problem" but I'll note
    in passing that a few of the conferences in that list are old copies or
    pointers for conferences which moved to HANNAH several months ago.
    
    (To make *room* for DIGITAL--yeah, that's the ticket.  :-))

re Note 304.78 by VMSDEV::HALLYB:

> >              -< FYI   -   KEYWORDS are there for people to use >-
>     
>     Funny you should mention that.  I just did DIR/KEYWORD=HIRING and
>     waited 20 minutes with no response before ^Cing.  (At 0630 EST)
>   
>     Do you really expect people to use keywords with that kind of response?
  
        Use a command such as SHOW KEYWORD HIRING/FULL rather than
        DIR/KEYWORD=HIRING -- it's much faster (the DIR/KEYWORD
        command apparently has to check every note in the conference,
        whereas SHOW KEYWORD can just look up things in a keyword
        index).

        Bob

    Re: .7
    
    Thank you Bob.  It is much faster.  Maybe that's what Alfred should
    have recommended in 304.77 too.  Wiser,
    
      John