From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/10506 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jason@mastaler.com (Jason R. Mastaler) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: www.emacs.org? Date: 03 Apr 1997 14:59:21 -0500 Sender: jason@mastaler.com Message-ID: References: <199704031907.OAA27218@ashanti.vcinet.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.106) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035150365 24799 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:46:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:46:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA03419 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 12:20:01 -0800 Original-Received: from claymore.vcinet.com (claymore.vcinet.com [208.205.12.23]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 22:00:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 5200 invoked by uid 504); 3 Apr 1997 19:57:36 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 5197 invoked from network); 3 Apr 1997 19:57:35 -0000 Original-Received: from ashanti.vcinet.com (208.205.15.58) by claymore.vcinet.com with SMTP; 3 Apr 1997 19:57:35 -0000 Original-Received: (from jason@localhost) by ashanti.vcinet.com (8.8.4/8.8.5) id OAA28871; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 14:59:22 -0500 (EST) Original-To: "Brian T. O'Neill" In-Reply-To: "Brian T. O'Neill"'s message of Thu, 03 Apr 1997 13:07:22 -0600 Original-Lines: 33 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.4.40/XEmacs 19.15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10506 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:10506 "Brian T. O'Neill" writes: > You know, its kinda funny, just cause whats currently on the emacs.org domain > is there cause I haven't had the time yet to setup my emacs page. Its also > kinda funny that you're talking about this on the ding@gnus list, when, I am a > subscriber to this list, and have been for quite some time now. I'm sorry you > all feel like I'm being an asshole about this, but, I'm not. The biggest > reason I got the domain in the first place, was to put alot of information on > using Emacs for things such as reading mail and news using Gnus. I only have > so much time in my life, and, if I'm not quick enough to make you happy, so be > it. Simmer down sport. I don't keep track of who is on the ding list, and you don't exactly contribute alot. Besides, this discussion has been going on for some time now. Maybe you should have stepped up earlier? If I was really being an "asshole" about this I would have included the full headers of the message you sent me including your e-mail address instead of making it anonymous. Getting back to the subject, I find that the best way to handle transitions like this is to either put up an "under construction" or "coming soon" page, or to just not add the domain to DNS until it is ready. The fact that www.emacs.org resolves to another website only confuses things. It's not a crime to be busy, and were are not blaming you for this. I just think it was an issue of us being unaware of the intentions of the domain. It's good to see that you plan on putting up an emacs page eventually, but please use it for GNU Emacs information, not XEmacs which already has a domain and website (http://www.XEmacs.org). -- Jason R. Mastaler jason@mastaler.com