minor list changes

[Tony Duell]

> 
> der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> wrote:
> 
> > The above is a rant.  It is only a rant.  If this had been a serious
> > message, the attitude presented would have been drastically different.
> > This concludes our test of the Rant Line.  We now return you to your
> > regularly scheduled list.
> 
> Well, it IS a serious matter for ME.  If Jay is going to make this list
> hostile to people who actually run their entire business operations on
> Classic computers in the Classic manner (and exercise their right to
> use their own servers and not someone else's for sovereignty reasons),

Actually, I don't run my own mail server, and nor do I intend to. Doing 
so on dial-up (so I certainly can't be connected to the outside world all 
the time) would seem to be totally stupid. 

No, I trust the mail servers at my ISP. And they've been darn good so far 
(as I said, perhaps half a dozen unscheduled problems in 10 years). But 
they do take them down for maintenance from time to time, there can be 
network problems, etc. 

I feel that expecting < 30 minutes outage at a time is _totally_ 
unreasonable for anyone, no matter what machines they run, what backup 
machines they have, and so on.


> it looks like those of us *TRULY* into Classic computing need to start
> our own list (hosted on a Classic list server of course).  der Mouse,
> can I count you in?  I'm sure I can count on Tony...  He is certainly
> *THE* most intelligent and most worthy person on this list.

I dispute that!. I've been called an idiot so often that I now believe it.

-tony