L.D., You get InfoWorld, don't you? There is one columnist there that would take up your banner in an instant. IIRC, her name is Barbara G.(?), but I am not sure. From what I read of her columns, she would welcome the F-U response you got from DR and your other complaints. Roger Turk Tucson, Arizona L.D. wrote: . > 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.
