Re: [NTLK] [Bulk] Re: Newtonbooks on UNNA [was: Re: Where is DJ?]

From: Dan Lingman <dlingman_at_rogers.com>
Date: Wed May 24 2006 - 17:29:29 EDT

Do you need a hand with maintaining the site? Archiving stuff, cataloging
etc? If so, let me know - I'd be happy to help out in any way I could.

Dan Lingman
Digital Matrix
dlingman@rogers.com

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[mailto:newtontalk-bounce@newtontalk.net] On Behalf Of Victor Rehorst
Sent: May 24, 2006 3:43 PM
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Subject: [Bulk] Re: [NTLK] Newtonbooks on UNNA [was: Re: Where is DJ?]

Michael Blazer wrote:
> I may have missed something, but I'm wondering why everyone should not
continue
> uploading Newtonbooks to UNNA? I certainly appreciate the efforts of DJV
and others in
> making books, spurring others to do so, and setting up repositories, but
... why not
> also upload them all to UNNA, just as insurance? (subject of course to
copyright issues
> where applicable)

The UNNA submission interface is busted, and even if I did fix it I have no
time to add new stuff to UNNA anymore. That's a reason.

> The purpose of UNNA (as I understand it, anyway) was to gather together in
one place all
> the various Newton software archives around the net, some of which were in
danger of
> disappearing. It seems to me that's still a very worthwhile mission.
UNNA has a proven
> track record since being adopted by Victor, and he hasn't abandoned it
despite his
> current fling with a Pepper Pad. ;-)

I'm so busy that I don't even have time to respond to a thread that talks
about me directly... wow...

I haven't abandoned /hosting/ - in fact I have a whole other mirror site to
setup that I haven't gotten to yet. I have abandoned maintenance :(

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