Mail Archives: opendos/2001/07/01/09:07:00
Hi!
Because I have been in Korfu (für alle die deutsch sprechen: Maturareise *gggg*) I couldn't answerd.
I agree with Matthias. But I can make a link to it too. Look at www.drdos.org next week.
Bye, flox
24-06-2001 22:13:04, "Matthias Paul" <Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de> wrote:
>On 2001-06-23, Patrick Moran wrote:
>
>> Leaves I have started a new Club and Group at Yahoo. I have been
>> having a lot of problems with trying to give people links to
>> follow for software related to DRI. Links are broken, sites
>> and software have disappeared.
>
>Hm, I hope not to sound too negative. I appreciate any DRI
>related activism -- in fact, we would need much more of it!
>
>But still, why donīt you point them to Florianīs http://www.drdos.org
>or Christophīs http://www.drdos.net? (Well, my site is still
>around as well, but many external links on the OpenDOS page
>are broken and the info has not been updated. This will remain
>so for "historic reasons" - I would like to add new pages
>but I donīt find the time...)
>
>Personally I have a problem with Yahoo! groups for several
>reasons:
>
>- It is very difficult to configure per email (at least last
> time I tried a couple of months ago), and the web interface
> is confusing and slow at best. Well, I donīt like to
> be dependent on a graphical web browser anyway, because
> it does not allow me to work offline.
>
>- Yahoo asks all kind of privacy info to join a group.
> I am not going to give more info to someone anonymous
> (and commercial!) than I like to.
>
>- By joining them you declare that they can do whatever
> they what to do with the contents and thereby they
> undergo common copyright laws, which are maintained
> in most individually or university funded newsgroups
> and mailing lists...
>
>Well, I think that DJ Delorie has done a great job in
>keeping this forum open and up for more than four years
>now and it does not look as if he would plan to abandon it.
>
>Traffic has been very low or quite off-topic recently,
>but I donīt see this changing if everyone has to join
>five or more DR-DOS related groups and chats instead
>of one, and check dozends of websites. So, why *donīt*
>we all join *one* forum (preferably this one, if DJ
>does not plan to abandon it) and refer anyone interested
>in joining this forum as well?
>
>The bottom line is: What is the advantage to have
>two instead of one mailing lists dealing with the
>same subject? Donīt you think we should join forces
>instead of cast outselfs in the winds? Pat, I wish
>many people will join your group, but do you think
>that the audience will be different from that in
>this group? If so, why donīt we come together in
>one forum?
>
>Please get this as constructive criticism.
>
>Greetings,
>
> Matthias
>
>BTW. Something that I like to see improved:
>
>Old logs of this group should be made available
>for download somewhere from DJīs site. Preferably
>as ASCII text packed in monthly .ZIP files.
>This would allow to browse the stuff offline.
>DJ, would do you think?
>
>--
>
>Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany
><mailto:Matthias DOT Paul AT post DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>; <mailto:mpaul AT drdos DOT org>
>http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org
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