Subj : this echo
To : David Calafrancesco
From : Mike Luther
Date : Sun Oct 14 2001 07:35 am
Hi Dave ..
DC> Hello all!
DC> Is there still interest in keeping this echo? If not,
DC> then we need to look into a graceful shutdown. If
DC> there is interest in keeping it, then we need to get
DC> people using it.
Looking back over the roster of the last 150 messages, it shows that the echo
is apparently used for problem solving for tools that relate OS/2 to the
Internet. What happens is that problems that show up in them are,thankfully,
fewish and far betweenish, it seems! The topics that show up here thus come in
spurts with dead air in between.
That's somewhat like the Aviation Echo! To which there is an old aviation tale
about flying being hours and hours of boredom with occaisional minutes of sheer
terror!
One reason it might be a good idea to keep the echo, even though there is
minimal traffic might be that OS/2 might actually experience a somewhat spurt
in new interest! There are a rather substantial number of folks out there who
are little folk in the scheme of things. They have a box at home,a couple of
them .. or so, or .. are running small systems for proprieterships of one kind
or othere.
They are very much wringing their hands over the new Microsoft policy of
wrenching a substantial sum out of their pocketbooks on a fairly regular basis
which has just, apparently, taken a quantum leap with XP. I personally know
over a dozen who simply, to they think, can't afford to deal with the M/S
creature any longer, Whether that is a realistic outlook or not is another
matter. As in beauty, ugliness is also in the eye of the beholder!
I personally know more than one such party who is busy trying to learn enough
about OS/2 to either put it up for the first time, or had it way back in
version 2.0 or early 3.0 and dropped it. Of course, they face the EOSL of Warp
4.0 and a somewhat cost of keeping OS/2 as well. But they are also looking at
ODIN, what have you.
Like it or not, IBM and OS/2 still never have done the user-install and get me
up and running gee-whiz wasn't that easy that Microsoft did for Windows! You
have to give M/S credit for doing a far better job at that, I think. Of course
we can argue all day long about what doesn't stay working once you install it,
but ... as the years have gone by what used to be roaring instability has been
solved, somewhat .. viri not withstanding, one would think.
The people who do take another look at OS/2 will still face the same problems
in INET relationships that many of us have faced and found answers here, I
suspect.
I could have, for example, tossed the recent thread on viri and OS/2 into this
echo instead of starting it in the generalized one. That was,probably, looking
back on it, a bad error on my part. The issue was a toss-up between networking
and OS/2 and INET and OS/2. As we are seeing,there is a bluring of the two
concepts at this point, isn't there?
The whole issue of DSL and connectivity with OS/2 is producing a fair amount of
traffic in the Usegroups now. That as DSL and other broadband stuff move
closer and closer to more of us.
Isn't this the right place for that stuff too?
Or are my perceptions off base?
--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
Mike @ 1:117/3001
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