I saved this Usenet message concerning the Simtel situation.
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|From: Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
|Subject: Re: What's up with Simtel?
|Date: 23 Feb 2001 03:36:20 GMT
|Message-ID: <974lrk$342$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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|>While the ftp site for simtel seems to be unaffected, www.simtel.net
|>seems to have no way to navigate to the djgpp (or gnuish) file section.
|>They no longer even have DJ's picture, which is a real loss. What's the
|>story here? (Their "contact us" page is useless now. This may change
|>sometime.)
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|I don't know the latest about the DJGPP aspect of Simtel, but Simtel has
|not been able to pay for itself and is no longer being supported as it
|was. The following is an excerpt from a private email to me from Keith
|Petersen, the main archivist at Simtel for many years (posted with his
|permission).
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|> Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2001 00:13:09 -0500 (EST)
|> To: Doug Kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|> Subject: Re: The Simtel situation
|>
|> Note: You may quote the information below on the net.
|>
|> Doug, you wrote:
|> ...
|> > I know that Simtel was hosted at Walnut Creek CDRom, which has been
|> > taken over by BSDI. How and when did Digital River get into this? I
|> > see on the Simtel web site that they now claim that Simtel and
|> > Simtel.net are registered trademarks of Digital River. How did title
|> > pass to them?
|>
|> Simtel.Net was bought by Digital River in October 1999 (see news
|> release below). Their funding model didn't work out as planned, so
|> they're having to reduce costs. This involves letting everybody go
|> except David Kirschbaum (the Windows archivist) and try to implement
|> an "automated system".
|>
|> David has yet to see the automated system, so I haven't a clue what's
|> going to be happening there. But they feel there's too much hands-on
|> work, and that the entire archive business can be simplified.
|>
|> I don't know what will happen to Simtel.Net - maybe it will automate,
|> maybe not. But it's certain that I won't be a part of it. And though
|> David might be wearing the "Archivist" hat (rather than just the
|> "Windows Archivist" sig he's used for the past few years) I don't know
|> how long he will be there either.
|>
|> ...
|> --
|> Keith Petersen, President & CEO
|> Petersen Data Management, Inc.
|
Howard E.
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