Message-Id: <200107011305.JAA25144@delorie.com> Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2001 15:05:43 +0200 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: flox Subject: Re: New DR-DOS Club and eGroup Organization: florianx AT drdos DOT org X-Mailer: Opera 5.11 build 904 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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" 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 >; >http://www.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html; http://mpaul.drdos.org > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- Ostbahnkurti - http://www.archlab.tuwien.ac.at/~hase/franz/konzert_kal.html Cold cold black night No one round to teach you right No one round to keep you warm All alone out in the storm Lots of whiskey, wine and gin To forget the mess you're in