"i dont share any of your woes or concerns".
Gee, that's a little hard - like a policeman who has seen too many
traffic accidents.
I just came through the demise of the Excite! contract with Comcast,
which dumped Excite! Millions of Comcast customers lost their
personal webspaces. Comcast gave a lot of warning that they were
going to pull the plug, but gave virtually zero help on how to capture
your website so you could move it to a successor provider.... the
successor turned out to be Comcast itself, but the service was
configured to work properly only with Microsoft's products, and had
no portabilty utility in it. If you need the kind of high speed
access only cable can provide, Comcast is the only game in most towns
where they operate. Here in DC the government learned - we now have
two cable players; lo and behold, Comcast is now allowing its service
to be resold to aggregators!
This mess has lasted months - so I share a lot of woes and concerns...
nobody should go through this. Yuo half expect a big company owuld
back its service up and make stuff available - but gone broke is gone
broke. It's like your house burning down with all of your memories in
it.
Come to think about it, maybe the state ought to take it all over
again! ;-> Maybe then we'd have respect for preservation, public
concerns and long term consistency rather than the almighty dollar.
LN
--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "acroorca2002" <orc@o...> wrote:
> --- In BoundaryPoint@y..., "granthutchison" <granthutchison@b...>
> wrote:
> > > Len, that would be great, thank you. Losing BP's data has been a
> > > long standing concern of mine.
> > Hear, hear. We're indebted to you, Len.
>
> glad to hear from all you guys too
> & to see all your outpourings of generosity & sympathy
> but i dont share any of your woes or concerns
> not only because they will only create more of same
> but even more poignantly in this case because all this
> boundarypointing is just sandcastling so far as i am concerned
anyway
> exquisitely beautiful & delicate as art & science but thats about it
> & its enormous interest & entertainment value is for me mainly in
how
> good it feels in the present
>
> & i know earthquakes & tsunamis are coming
> no problem
>
> if you feel hurt by anything
> thats your doing
>
> if you mention it
> thats yours too
>
> if you are worried
> notice how that affects things
> etc
> etc
>
> but to do all this in unison & solidarity is insane
> so i abstane
>
> m
>
> ps
> the really earthshaking news for me today is that all 128 of
denmarks
> prospective international ghost stones have melted down to nothing
> leaving only the usa 2 still on the board
>
> well yes i can also recall there are swedens confirmed 6
> & probably a smaller handful in france we know
> & germany was supposed to have quite a few but where are they when
we
> really need them
> probably in some archive somewhere
> etc
> etc