Any 24 hour by 7 day a week by 365 days a year full-time operation has a significantly high level of hand holding of the folks on it and the equipment need to make it work properly. The administration of Days's idea of a geographically diverse not for profit cooperative being moderately successful has the same statistical chance of happening as most folks of not hurting themselves when jumping off a ten story building onto a concrete sidewalk.
I speak from personal experience of having operated a wireline DOS-based store & forward BBS communication system with nearly two hundred users who were 24 x 7 x 365 public safety and news media folks. We did it for nine (9) years. I know a heck of a lot more about getting out of bed at 3:00 am to go to the local FBI office to fix the stuff than Day Brown has ever experienced with his Day-dreaming fantasy. John Oram Bob George wrote: > > The perl script known as "Day Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > As for installing more software, as in the proposal for spam filters, > > I have seen that I can install anything I want on a dos system with > > little or no risk to the kernel, and even if it is damaged, repair > > is quick and simple. But I have seen trying to install something in > > Linux completely trash the drive. It may very well be that I dont > > properly understand how to install linux apps, but in that case, it > > may very well be that I am too stupid and lazy to read and properly > > understand the documentation, and not lucid enough to locate the > > right sources. Of course, this is also complicated by the habit I > > got from dos where the documentation came with the app and was on > > my own drive, readily available. > > OK gang, while the latest iteration of the program had some initial promise, > it's broken down into meandering from topic to topic, only now withing a few > sentences. I'm afraid that this is old, tired ground. Surely the program > could monitor slashdot and a few other news sources and at least come up > with something that remotely supported its position once in a while. The > constant "DOS never broke, but Linux is frail" thread is silly, and > completely shatters the illusion that there's anything generating the > message. > > > whereas with linux apps, what seems to be happening is that they are > > only offering documentation online, which means that you havta fill > > out a form, and make yourself even more subject to spam. no thanx. > > I have not had good luck with that. > > If this were even moderately true, the program would seem lifelike. As it > is, it fails the Turing test badly on this point alone. Any fool can find a > wealth of information on Linux without ever encountering a web form. And > most of it can be read with a text-only browser to boot. > > > What I would advocate is a global user co-op, which like the BBS > > nets, was actually owned by the sysops and users rather than some > > non-personal organization in it for the money. I live in a rural > > area, and see that our local co-op electric utility has delivered > > electricity at far lower rates than most folks pay. This time of > > year, with the hydro full of winter rain, we even sell what we > > dont need, and our rates run about 4 cents/kwh. > > Just do it. :) I think the AI wants to build a global, cooperative network, > with global reach, providing cheap access to all users. Hmmm... I've heard > that before. > > > A coop ISP/Internet could do the same; make access between the user > > base unimpeded, with every source of every post identified as to > > just who sent it. The users, rather than the profit centered ISP > > and the advertisers, would have control over who had access. It > > would be a very competitive system, for without the spam, the > > bandwidth pipes from the backbone to the user would be gonzo cheaper. > > Economies of no scale? Yeah, THAT'S it! OK, this one's amusing. > > - Bob > > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > > More info can be found at; > > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html > > > > To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. > Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. > More info can be found at; > http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
