As I rem, it was Karl that wanted blackdown to step down from hosting due to
influence from the real bandwidth owners of blackdown.
Marcus Johnson wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Christopher Seawood wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Marcus Johnson wrote:
> >
> > > Yes, yes, but will someone answer the question? What is the history here?
> >
> > I'm not sure why it matters but the brief and possibly incorrect story is
> > this: Some people thought that linux-jdk should have it's own domain.
> > They asked Karl, maintainer of Blackdown, to give up his "control" over
> > the site which he did. After everything was setup to use java-linux.org,
> > it disappeared without warning and I haven't heard anything from those
> > guys since. Karl resumed support of the linux-jdk site and here we are
> > now.
> >
> > Now back to jdk issues.
> >
> > - cls
> >
> > "A *person* is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals..."
> > - K, MIB
> >
