On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:05:37 -0500, chris king wrote:

> http://www.slackwaresupport.com
>
> new site. coming of age. post all ya can, and be come members.

Why?

You think we have time for something besides this NG? Get lost.

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On 2004-06-23, chris king <phiber@slackwaresupport.com> wrote:

> yes i know this.. that is why im wanting people to sign up and post news,
> events, etc... im a system administrator for a wireless isp.. im just
> tooo busy. but i know the site can be good for slackware.

How do you know this, and in what way can the site be good for
Slackware? IOW, why should we give a damn? If you can't answer,
why should we bother to read another forum? (Especially a web-
based one. Yuck!)

- --keith

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:05:37 -0500, chris king wrote:

> http://www.slackwaresupport.com
>
> new site. coming of age. post all ya can, and be come members.

A guy goes to the trouble of setting up a web site for people to help each
other with regards to Slackware and all he gets is negative criticism. I
for one say 'good luck' to this well-intentioned enthusiast.

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On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:12:45 +0100, Vigil wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:05:37 -0500, chris king wrote:
>
>> http://www.slackwaresupport.com
>>
>> new site. coming of age. post all ya can, and be come members.
>
> A guy goes to the trouble of setting up a web site for people to help each
> other with regards to Slackware and all he gets is negative criticism. I
> for one say 'good luck' to this well-intentioned enthusiast.

Seconded. My only criticism (and this is general, not of this specific
site) is that you need to register to post anything, and I generally
forget passwords/leave them on another machine/lose the bit of paper I
wrote it on. If you are a member of a number of sites, it becomes a real
hassle to keep track of them all.

I appreciate that it may cut down the amount of annoying messages, but
that's not a problem until a site is very popular anyway.

philicorda wrote:
> wrote it on. If you are a member of a number of sites, it becomes a real
> hassle to keep track of them all.

not if you use the same username/password for all of them. which is what i
do. (well, only for not-critical things, of course.)

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philicorda <philicordanospamnooosppamsnope@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> Seconded. My only criticism (and this is general, not of this specific
> site) is that you need to register to post anything, and I generally
> forget passwords/leave them on another machine/lose the bit of paper I
> wrote it on. If you are a member of a number of sites, it becomes a real
> hassle to keep track of them all.
>
Use a password that you can derive in some way from the name of the
site. It's not as if this is a particularly sensitive password so it
doesn't have to be very secure. I use the combination of a foreign
word and some letters from the site's name.

--
Chris Green

On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:12:45 +0100, Vigil wrote:

> On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 11:05:37 -0500, chris king wrote:
>
>> http://www.slackwaresupport.com
>>
>> new site. coming of age. post all ya can, and be come members.
>
> A guy goes to the trouble of setting up a web site for people to help each
> other with regards to Slackware and all he gets is negative criticism. I
> for one say 'good luck' to this well-intentioned enthusiast.

hey thanks man. i just love slackware. its the only distro that drives
the way i like. no you dont have to register to post to guestbook, and
forum, etc.

thanks
chris

On Wed, 23 Jun 2004 23:06:17 -0700, Keith Keller wrote:

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> On 2004-06-23, chris king <phiber@slackwaresupport.com> wrote:
>
>> yes i know this.. that is why im wanting people to sign up and post
>> news, events, etc... im a system administrator for a wireless isp.. im
>> just tooo busy. but i know the site can be good for slackware.
>
> How do you know this, and in what way can the site be good for Slackware?
> IOW, why should we give a damn? If you can't answer, why should we bother
> to read another forum? (Especially a web- based one. Yuck!)
>
> - --keith
>
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because slackware is the only distro that is worth a damn. if need be i
can setup a news server or mailman.

chris king wrote:
> http://www.slackwaresupport.com
>
> new site. coming of age. post all ya can, and be come members.
>
> thanks
>

This is a nice idea however Slackware already has a couple of community
driven support sites in the form of userlocal.com and slackfiles.net.

Do we really need another one?

What I believe needs to happen if the organisers of these sites to get
together and combine their efforts, maybe one can be used more for
newbies/marketing and the other users for more sysadmin/developer type
stuff.

Regards

Lee

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Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> wrote:
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> On 2004-06-23, chris king <phiber@slackwaresupport.com> wrote:

> > yes i know this.. that is why im wanting people to sign up and post news,
> > events, etc... im a system administrator for a wireless isp.. im just
> > tooo busy. but i know the site can be good for slackware.

> How do you know this, and in what way can the site be good for
> Slackware? IOW, why should we give a damn? If you can't answer,
> why should we bother to read another forum? (Especially a web-
> based one. Yuck!)

> - --keith

> - --
> kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us
> (try just my userid to email me)
> AOLSFAQ=http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom

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