Sounds like the "One List" party here is in the majority. Well, okay, but my point was more about how do we carry our eggs in more than one basket. Our entire communications capability depends on one server over which none of us have any control. Not that this is so bad; Directions Magazine is a dedicated player in the GIS community and so their interests generally align with ours and also they have the online resources and expertise to maintain a pretty good service for only the price of using our content as a background to display advertising. But it's still only one link and if it gets cut, there's no backup. My suggestion for a second list was more to justify setting up a parallel service operated from a different server located somewhere else on the 'net.
But there are other ways to spread out the presnece without thinning out the content. For example, I'd really love to see someone set up a MapInfo wiki. I tried to set one up a few years ago, but didn't have the infrastructure or the expertise to maintain it, and the hackers destroyed it before I could get it going. Then I worked with Eric Frost to set up another one, but that never got off the ground for pretty much the same reasons. I think at least I'm going to set up a small MapInfo-L news page on my web site so that there will be at least one place people can go to find out what's happening, should anything out of the ordinary happen. More on that later... But if anyone has any ideas about how we can be less dependent on only one service, let's talk about it. - Bill Thoen _______________________________________________ Mapinfo-l mailing list [email protected] http://www.directionsmag.com/mailman/listinfo/mapinfo-l
