Let me get this set back up on mapinfo-l.com, there was already a lot of content.
I do have the time and resources now to host and maintain it. The issue in the past was spam posts, the home page was repeatedly taken over by pharmaceutical and gambling links, I think it will not be hard to put in authentication to overcome that. I should have it done by early next week.
Eric
Colin Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Colin Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A wiki is a brilliant idea. I have set one up for my team at work and it is works like a dream, I would be more than happy to set a MapInfo Wiki up. But the issue would be finding a home for it, I personally don't have the resources to house one and free hosting sites may not provide the necessary services such as database and bandwidth. If there is a place we can house it then I would gladly offer my services.
Regards,
Colin Henderson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Bill Thoen
Sent: Fri 11/11/2005 15:31
To: MapInfo-L
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [MapInfo-l] MapInfo-L Blackout
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 w! ith 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
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