Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Re: Yahoo Groups Problems?????

ccs@... wrote:

> I don't know... maybe it's time to figure out how to write an
> article-snarfer agent and create a backu
>
>> No one has replied to my post about what might be happening with those
>> groups which have had their archive "deleted"? And whether we (CCED)
>> are "protected" against a yahoo "mistake" or worse...
>>
>> Ballendo
>>

I've got the whole thing in individual e-mails from 6 MAY 99 forward
except some hand deleted spam. It exists as a single unix style mailbox
file of approximately 156MB. I'll send it to your personal e-mail
address as an attachment for safe keeping, you should get it in the next
few minutes ... ;)

>>
>> <snip> Should yahoo become unusuable, I would be willing to help setup
>> a
>> computer to serve this and perhaps several other related lists, and
>> I'm sure I would not be the only such volunteer amongst our
>> membership. Those of us who remember the pre-commercial internet
>>
>> use things like yahoo with a degree of amusement, and stand ready to go
>> back to the old ways if the dot-com bubble completely bursts
>>
>>>
>>> Chris Stratton
>>

I'd go back to the old way if need be, BBSes could be brought back
online and at 28.8, 33.6, or (if I can ever get it) 53K they'd be alot
better than they were at 1200 baud. Add html support and a cheap
unlimited long distance calling plan and it would'nt be THAT bad. Kind
of a batch mode internet.

Better than going back though would be to go forward to an 802.11
wireless network. As this whole post is OT, I'll just refer you to:

http://www.freenetworks.org/

or you could search Google for "Wi-Fi" or "neighborhood area network",
that is, while you still can...

Matt