Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
Couldn't they use the same servers, just set up a new directory and offer it as a separate NG? Is it really that hard to do? Yes, probably. No, not really. I don't think the obstruction is technical. I'm not actually sure what it _is_ - presumably lack of time on the part of the relevant support staff. Gerv
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
Gervase Markham wrote: Couldn't they use the same servers, just set up a new directory and offer it as a separate NG? Is it really that hard to do? Yes, probably. No, not really. I don't think the obstruction is technical. I'm not actually sure what it _is_ - presumably lack of time on the part of the relevant support staff. Gerv Could be lack of interest since the only reason for Mozilla's existance at Netscape/AOL is to come up with a new version of Netscape 6. Once they get a perfect package (for them) then adios Mozilla. So since they are just tolerating mozilla for their on devices, they could care less about things that would make things easier. -- --- Phillip M. Jones, CET |MEMBER:VPEA (LIFE) ETA-I, NESDA,ISCET, Sterling 616 Liberty Street |Who's Who. PHONE:276-632-5045, FAX:276-632-0868 Martinsville Va 24112-1809 |[EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ11269732, AIM pjonescet --- If it's fixed, don't break it! mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/america/default.htm http://www.kimbanet.com/~pjones/message/default.htm http://home.kimbanet.com/~pjones/birthday/index.htm
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 26 Feb 2002: Once they get a perfect package (for them) then adios Mozilla. So since they are just tolerating mozilla for their on devices, they could care less about things that would make things easier. I highly doubt that. Do you have any idea how much bad publicity would come about if Netscape released Netscape 6.5 and then said Ok, screw you Mozilla guys, goodbye Mozilla.org, goodbye newsgroups, no more CVS, no more source code, we win. Think Netscape has a small market share now? How does ~0.01% after that sound? -- AIM: FlyersR1 9 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ = m
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. wrote: Gervase Markham wrote: Couldn't they use the same servers, just set up a new directory and offer it as a separate NG? Is it really that hard to do? Yes, probably. No, not really. I don't think the obstruction is technical. I'm not actually sure what it _is_ - presumably lack of time on the part of the relevant support staff. Gerv Could be lack of interest since the only reason for Mozilla's existance at Netscape/AOL is to come up with a new version of Netscape 6. Exactly.
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
DeMoN LaG wrote: Leave it to that wack job to take a quote completely out of context and turn it into a communist AOLZilla plot against humanity, ya know? Actually, JTK is making a valid point. There are numerous posts here from users who think this is a *Netscape* newsgroup. It would be nice if the transfer to a purely Mozilla-named nesserver were to finally happen. -- Regards, Peter Lairo
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
It would be nice if the transfer to a purely Mozilla-named nesserver were to finally happen. Everyone agrees it would be nice :-) But unless you are going to stump up the servers and bandwidth, we'll just have to keep plugging away at persuading Netscape to sort it out :-) Gerv
Re: Speaking of never removing the netscape....
JTK wrote: Looking at Bugzilla Bug 62228 (a list of people asking when is the 'netscape.' going to be removed from the newsgroup names and being completely ignored), I run across this: --- Additional Comment #38 From Dawn Endico 2001-07-17 12:27 --- [...] In the mean time, I figured out how to cancel articles (it can only be done from inside the netscape firewall) and i've been deleting a bunch of stuff one at a time by hand. Suboptimal, but better than nothing. i've been deleting a bunch of stuff one at a time by hand. Um, I don't think the proposed reorg mentioned anything about deleting people's articles. She is talking about spam messages. The automatic spam filter (which will presumably block all posts where subject or sender contains penis, mortgage, insurance, 4PlayMail, and - hopefully - JTK) cannot be installed before the newsgroup reorganization is done, so she has do delete spam manually. /Jonas
