site_removal

[Net Llama!]

On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Collins Richey wrote:
>> On 10/7/06, Susan Macchia <susan at smacchia.net> wrote:
>>> Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>> Net Llama! wrote:
>>>>> On Fri, 6 Oct 2006, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>>>> Lots of good stuff hiding in there!  We all might get motivated one day
>>>>>> and start putting more stuff in!
>>>>> shoulda, woulda, coulda.  If it was going to happen, it would have
>>>>> happened.
>>>>>
>>>> Well, I think it is a considerable loss.  Without that info, it's hard
>>>> to justify the existence of much else about the list.  I have paper
>>>> copies of a few things from SxS that were important to me at the
>>>> particular moment, and a lot of stuff that I expected to read when I got
>>>> the time which I left on-line thinking it would always be there.  For
>>>> example, I just happen to find in my files paper copies of articles
>>>> about "upgrading glibc" written by both the Bald Guy in Panama and by
>>>> one Net Llama.
>>>> So I guess that, since it worked for *you* before, and it worked for
>>>> *me* before, as a minor upgrade, I think I can risk it again considering
>>>> the various warnings about backup.
>>> Are you guys taking about the removal of the SxS site? If so, I must concur on considerable loss, to say the least.  I personally find it invaluable and often point collegues to that site.  Additionally, I have been thanked many times over for some of the articles that I wrote (especially the one on multi-flash card readers).  I would hate to see the site go.
>>>
>>
>> Could someone fill me in about this thread. It seems to presume facts
>> that I haven't heard anywhere else. Maybe I've been napping again?
>>
>>
>
> It started when I tried to access the SxS site to get info on updating
> glibc.  I got transferred to a page that said that, in essence, the SxS
> info is old, bug-ridden, poorly maintained, and possibly no longer
> needed 'cause distros now "just run" out of the box.  And it asked for
> feedback about whether or not people wanted to keep the site.  I clicked
> the respond-to link and added my .02 dollars US and my response ended up
> being posted here.  And it appears that the SxS info is no longer
> accessible.

If people want the content to remain, then it won't get removed.  The big 
issue/concern is that there's been virtually no new submissions in quite a 
long time, nor very many updates to pre-existing content, and alot of the 
content is suffering from bit-rot.

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