On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 06:12:26PM +0000, Dave Cross wrote: > This really is ancient history. I think it was very soon after the mailing > list started up (so well over four years ago). > > My copy of that mailbox has long since gone awol, but some of the other > pioneers might well have a copy.
http://www.barnyard.co.uk/list-archives/london.pm/ user/passwd: pony/pie You want the 1998 mailbox. Isn't it a Good Thing that I asked Dave for a copy of his archives from the list's early days a couple of years ago. It looks like $streetmap_person didn't contact the list originally, it started with one of us moaning on-list about it being slow. After a few posts, Dave mailed streetmap offering our services. They certainly seemed interested, judging by the reply which you forwarded to the list. Penny Bamborough from streetmap joined the list a few days later. Oh how naive we were at the time. Here's a few choice snippets, with names removed to protect the guilty. " I'm pretty sure that as London.pm we could knock out a pretty good solution for them. If it were to extended into TPI and related folks it could become a pretty credible OpenSource project. " " > FYI, http://uk.multimap.com/map/places.cgi is faster... Hah! It won't be once we've rewritten streetmap.co.uk in Perl. " " > I gues what we need is a 'streetmap tsar' who can co-ordinate us and liase > with StreetMap. I might be able to shoe horn in some to time for that. " " Seriously, The SQL solution seems more sensible to me. " " The site currently serves >35,000 hits per day and runs on a UUNET Windows NT 4.0 server with a 10Mb link to their Internet backbone. Because of the technology, we have to rent the whole box for ourselves (15k pa) " (coo, what a HUGE load :-) " For a perl beginner, cgi-lib is probably better than CGI.pm as the syntax is simpler. " " he proclaims that 'all CGI programs should run under ... -Tw ... use strict' [...] Hmph. Could'a fooled me. " -- David Cantrell | Data Archaeologist | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david I hear you asking yourselves "why?". Hurd will be out in a year ... -- Linus Torvalds, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
