>If I remember my history correctly, Eskimo.com originally maintained >its own archive of the list. But one day the archive vanished, and no >one at Eskimo.com would answer our queries about returning it to >service, or releasing it for storage elsewhere. I think it was around >this same time that we decided the list was on auto-pilot, and that we >shouldn't rock the boat -- especially if the only thing keeping our >list alive was a stable mail server and a lazy system administrator.
Close... BlueWorld (the makers of Lasso for FileMaker Pro) hosted it. And it did vanish without warning, and a few people did try to contact Blue World to find out what the deal was. They never answered me, but others were told that it is gone and no further info/assistance would be given on the topic. IIRC, a few other lists went bye bye at the same time. That kind of made me think they had a server crash and failed to have a decent backup. Or maybe they just decided they didn't want to spent the bandwidth and server resources on them anymore. Either way, a better answer would have been nice (and if it was the latter, handing out a backup of the archives would have been wonderful). Frankly, their seeming hostility towards the topic, and their total lack of desire to be of any help, turned me off them entirely. Which is a shame really, as right about that time my company was looking at buying a license for Lasso. But I felt their attitute about the lists showed a general attitute they might have towards customers and problems in general, so we turned to a different solution. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
