[Am-info] Microsoft list?

[Gene Gaines]

Mark, Geoffrey, Roy and everyone,

At this point, I find this list next to dead.
As administrator, I can say that.

But, I am not willing to give up -- battle far
from over.

I want to thank a day or two about my response
as to the future of the list.

As an interim step, I will contact Fred Miller, thank
him for his inputs to the list, and ask him absolutely
to stop posting Linux-only stuff to the list.

Gene
gene.gaines@gainesgroup.com

On Sunday, May 16, 2004, 3:48:32 PM, Mark wrote:

> In <40A777D9.9080008@3times25.net>, on 05/16/04 at 10:16 AM,
>    Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net> said:

>>I see the Fred Miller Linux list is still going strong.  Why don't you
>>folks this this pathetic thing die.  I return to the archives every now
>>and then in hopes of finding something relevant.  Again, I find Fred
>>owning over 98% of the postings, and of those, 96% are Linux related,
>>not Microsoft.

>>What a sad hijacking of a useful list..

> Actually I think Fred is doing better these days.  I've bitched about him
> in the past and haven't felt the need to do so recently, but maybe I'm
> just mellowing in my old age.  His posts are still mostly just URLs but
> many of the subjects seem to relate to Microsoft in some way.  Even the
> SCO stuff is related to msft since they are bankrolling it. Every once in
> a while I even look up a URL he posts.  He does still post stuff that has
> no relationship to Microsoft at all though.  Why doesn't someone set him
> up as moderator of his own Linux news list?  I run an OS/2 one myself, so
> I don't feel the need to post that off topic stuff here.

> As to this list my hope (dream perhaps) is that Bush loses in November and
> Kerry has the decency and the balls to enforce the anti-trust statutes
> rather then suck up the few million bucks Gates can offer in protection in
> money and look the other way.  At that point this list could become viable
> again.  In the interim what is there to discuss?  m$ can do as it pleases
> now.


> Mark



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