[WarpCast] Retraction of offer to host hobbes - 5/03/99




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Source: Thomas at Pepperhead (thomas@pepperhead.co.uk)
Moderator: Dirk Terrell (admin@os2ss.com)
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[Moderator's note: See previous Warpcast message 
http://www.os2ss.com/warpcast/wc3374.html and the 
Hobbes archiver's response at 
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/~archiver/pepperhead.html ]

As you have probably read Pepper Head Design (Hot Ideas) 
Limited made a proposal to the OS/2 users under our 
understanding of the position made by the archiver of the 
hobbes.nmsu.edu archive.

We believe that Mr Shagam (archiver@hobbes.nmsu.edu) 
suggested the the OS/2 community would have to decide what 
to do with hobbes to continue it, and gave no suggestion as 
to his plans or restrictions over hobbes.

To such end, Pepper Head Design costed the cost of the 
bandwidth and a full time hobbes archiver and made a 
proposal to the OS/2 community via Warpcast, that we 
were *considering* continuing the services of hobbes (on a 
web site under the URL of hobbes.org.) and made full 
details of the way we would handle it.

With the OS/2 community as small as it is and having as 
little corporate support as it currently enjoys it was our 
opinion that this was a valid way of making a real 
contribution to OS/2 users.

Mr Shagam on hobbes.nmsu.edu has now accused us of 
attempting to deceive and mislead the OS/2 community.

Because of this we now retract our offer of setting up an 
OS/2 archive with the content of  hobbes hosted on a fast 
connection in the USA with a full time archiver and non 
obtrusive advertising revenue (whilst providing full ftp
and an open mirroring policy).

I refuse to be made a fool for attempting to do something, 
for the good of the OS/2 community at large.





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