OK, once someone has figured this out (that email must be one of the most ineptly unclear ones ever) tell the dozen or so of us who are now confused (the quantum webring members) and above all Giorgio Garabello as the Quantum Webring master (or whatever the originator is called) what the hell to do, I'm blowed if I'm going to spend precious hours sorting out something so daft. Why is that the ones who abuse personal data don't give two hoots, while the ones who do handle it responsibly end up having to do this to us? -- Dilwyn Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.soft.net.uk/dj/index.html -----Original Message----- From: Norman Dunbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 17 October 2001 12:42 Subject: RE: [ql-users] Web Ring - about to vanish ?
>As far as I can gather, > >we are in the_quantum web ring, > >the ring used to be hosted/powered/somethinged by Webring > >Yahoo took over Webring at about the same time as it took over all the >'groups' > >Yahoo now want to split Webring off again, but because it has an agreement >with us, it cannot pass on/back our personal information to Webring, so we >have to migrate our webring site, and get a new webring id (whatever that >is) and register that id over at Webring. > >Then we are once again on the Webring. > > >It is indeed a mess ! > >Norman. > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- >- >Norman Dunbar EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Database/Unix administrator Phone: 0113 289 6265 > Fax: 0113 289 3146 >Lynx Financial Systems Ltd. URL: http://www.Lynx-FS.com >--------------------------------------------------------------------- ------- >- > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Tony Firshman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2001 12:30 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [ql-users] Web Ring - about to vanish ? > > >On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 at 12:09:31, Norman Dunbar wrote: >(ref: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) > >I am puzzled by all this - I got the email too, but, as I said, I am not >on the yahoo webring. > >I have to do nothing, I assume, to keep my site on the QL webring. > >What _is_ this yahoo webring? Someone has added me, but not told me, so >I do not include it on my site. > >What a mess. >
