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From: "Braden, Flash" <cbraden AT visa DOT com>
To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Where is everybody?
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:32:33 -0800
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I have to agree w/ Philippe.  I lurk on this list
reading all the posts but responding rarely.  It is
useful still.

-Flash->

> ----------
> From: 	Philippe
> DALLEMAGNE[SMTP:Philippe DOT Dallemagne AT ensem DOT u-nancy DOT fr]
> Sent: 	Tuesday, November 10, 1998 1:23 AM
> To: 	opendos AT delorie DOT com
> Subject: 	Re: Where is everybody?
> 
> I don't think it would be a *good* idea :
> 
> If I take the example of the "geos-to-go" mailing-list, there is not much
> traffic usually,
> but sometimes some new discussions appears, very useful to newbies (new
> subscribers).
> 
> Moreover, mailing-lists are useful for "exotic" things (ie. not widely
> spread), because
> they formed the (almost) only source of information and sharing for users.
> Would you think
> about a Win9x related mailing-list ? No need for such a thing, and what a
> traffic : almost
> unuseable.
> 
> I would like to see the mailing-list still alive, waiting for some new
> subscribers (there may
> be, isn't it ?) and new discussions.
> 
> Just my opinion, though.
> 
> bye.
> 
> Philippe.
> 
> > 
> > > Otherwise, the list is probably dead.
> > 
> > I'm more than willing to decommision the lists and free up the
> > resources they're using on my site (not many), if nobody wants them
> > any more, especially since OpenDOS is no longer an open-source
> > package.
> > 
> > Does Caldera have opendos user forums?
>