Gangue, fellow DOSasuars, all people who give a snit ...
I just realized, secondary to my perceived gripes, that something very
serious is happening and something needs to be done. And I'm at a lost
where to start.
Many of you may subscribe to various e-zines about OSes or tech stuff in
general or Legacy systems or universal access ... that may be a place to
start.
Start what? A very serious war ... It is obvious, to any and all who
have looked carefully or had to deal with Digital River, that a
universal resourse is being systematically destroyed, irreplaceable
archives deleted, universal access denied -- all by an elitist,
exclusionary, group of suits who are running the DR-acquired remnants of
Simtel.net
DR had removed mirror sites, has resorted the indices, and is
systematically removing files from the collection which are not up to
DR's standards in one way or another.
As many of you know, Digital River is set up in a manner that a DOS user
or sometimes even a Win3.x user, cannot access the indexes or files that
are supposed to be a part of Simtel.net ...
Petitions, industry & social outrage, letters to columnists, I don't
know what else ... but SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE BEFORE DOZERWARE DUMMIES
COMPLETELY BULLDOZE THE REMNANTS OF SIMTEL.NET !!!
Sorry for shouting, but I'm feeling very old and very vulnerable about
now ... I depended upon Simtel.net for over a decade and now I'm being
denied access and seeing assets being thrown away because they are not
seen as profitable.
If you people come up with ideas, I can help maybe with the language and
grammar ... but I can't come up with all the ideas or do all the work,
and I think it would be an unspeakable crime for one commercial firm to
suddenly decide that files usefull to at least 50% of the world are not
worth their efforts to maintain and protect.
l.d.
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On Tue, 17 Jul 2001 03:44:50 -0400, Clarence Verge wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 21:10:46 -0500, L.D. Best wrote:
>> I had a file name that was supposed to reside in simtel/win3/graphics
>> available for download; it was a driver package with a 'generic' VESA
>> that might have enabled me to have 256 colors in Win3.1 with my
>> !@@#$#@#!! Diamond Stealth II 220S video card.
>> I went to the available files for "graphics" and the file wasn't there,
>> nor were there ANY files in the "drivers" classification.
> Hi LD;
> Avoid DavidK's mess and go right to the old format:
> http://www.rarf.riken.go.jp/archives/pc/simtelnet/win3/graphics/
> Unfortunately, I could find nothing classified as a driver there either.
> This message tells it all:
> NOTE: This list was created on Sun Jan 14 23:10:12 EST 2001
> Some files may have been added or deleted since that date.
> Ok, here's one in Korea he hasn't got to yet and BOTH of your files
> are there: http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/ftp/simtel/simtel_graphics.html
> I was going to say luckily, for Win3 stuff there is another option -
> Winsite. @#@$%^&%&(*&)astards seem to have re-organized THAT place too.
> (Read F***ed UP!) Pages and pages and pages of video drivers have
> evaporated.
> - Clarence Verge
> - Back to using Arachne V1.62 ....
-- Arachne V1.70;rev.3, NON-COMMERCIAL copy, http://arachne.cz/
