Ben, I don't think you need to apologize to anyone.
When you take your own time to provide a service to this community and someone wants to criticize it, I think it is best to just shake your head and move on... Tom Ferguson > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 5:07 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: witango-talk archive > > > Hi All, > > I apologize for the lack of attention to the Archive. > > Ben Johansen - http://www.pcforge.com > Authorized Witango Reseller http://www.pcforge.com/WitangoGoodies.htm > Latest downloads & List Archives @ http://www.witango.ws > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, January 29, 2003 1:57 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: witango-talk archive > > First, let me say I'm grateful for all the help I've gotten from this > list (most of it from lurking). I save most postings that I think I'll > need, so I can search locally. > > And I'm glad that there is an archive out there, and appreciate someone > volunteering to provide a service. So from a community perspective, I > can swivel around to my windows box for this. > > But from a marketing perspective, I see this as a net negative, because > one of the first things a prospective developer will look at (at least I > > would) is the list archive -- to see how active, what kinds of bugs are > being reported, etc. > > So I would hope that a "first class" discussion list would become a > priority. BTW, my other favorite tool, Swish-E, has a fine, very > workable, searchable, sortable, discussion list archive that > demonstrates > its capabilities as an indexing tool: > http://www.swish-e.org/Discussion/ > > thx > > >Umm, the list archive is provided as a goodwill service by one of the > Tango > >resellers. It's not something that is from With directly. It's also > been a > >concept that has been a pain in the butt for as long as I can remember. > >Pervasive's was worse and I'm ashamed to say that my original employer > (as > >far as Tango is concerned) didn't even have one. > > > >Hope this helps, > > > >Steve Smith > > > >Oakbridge Information Solutions > >Office: (519) 624-4388 > >GTA: (416) 606-3885 > >Fax: (519) 624-3353 > >Cell: (416) 606-3885 > >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Web: http://www.oakbridge.ca > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Bill Conlon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >> Sent: January 29, 2003 4:25 PM > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Subject: Witango-Talk: witango-talk archive > >> > >> > >> Does anyone know of a worse wiTango application than the witango-talk > >> mail archive? > >> > >> http://www.witango.ws/tangotalk/IE/ > >> > >> Doesn't work at all on Mac (Net7/Moz1.1/IE5.1) > >> > >> Merely infuriating on Wintel/IE6 > >> > >> Bill Conlon > >> > >> To the Point > >> 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > >> Palo Alto, CA 94306 > >> > >> office: 650.327.2175 > >> fax: 650.329.8335 > >> mobile: 650.906.9929 > >> e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> web: http://www.tothept.com > >> > >> > >> > ________________________________________________________________________ > >> TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > >> > > > >_______________________________________________________________________ > _ > >TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > > > > Bill Conlon > > To the Point > 345 California Avenue Suite 2 > Palo Alto, CA 94306 > > office: 650.327.2175 > fax: 650.329.8335 > mobile: 650.906.9929 > e-mail: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: http://www.tothept.com > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
