Date: Sun, 29 May 2005 20:35:27 GMT From: Paul Halliday <pjghnospamyonder.co.uk> Subject: Re: saabnet.com blocking access to more of their site!
in article 20050529143238.032d139c.nothingnospamo.com, Saab Guy at nothingnospamo.com wrote on 29/05/2005 19:32: > On 29 May 2005 15:40:11 GMT > Dave Hinz <DaveHinznospamcop.net> wrote: > >> On Sat, 28 May 2005 23:49:29 +0000 (UTC), Craig's Saab C900 Site >> <c900nospam.apana.org.au> wrote: >> >>> PS. Saabscene appears to have silently deleted the message I posted about >>> the issue - it stills shows up in a forum search but the links reports as >>> being a non-existent topic. 8-) >> >> See? That's what I mean. Replace one site with another, and you can >> expect exactly that. Craig, you're a great guy, your site rocks, but >> when you die or lose interest, it's all -whiff- gone into the ether. >> Usenet and google archives are, for all practical purposes, forever. >> While a site is great for discussion and Q&A, so is Usenet. And the >> fact is, Usenet is more constant than any website can possibly be, >> just by nature of the beast. >> >> As Linus Torvalds has said (paraphrasing here) - Don't back up your >> data, upload it to Usenet and it gets archived everywhere. >> > > > Dave, > > Go Linux and USENET!!! Oldschool I guess you'd call it. It's the best IMHO ... Which reminds me ... I really need to ensure that 900 Aero dot com's SQL dump is "willed" to me. That's a resource that *cannot* be lost. Paul 1989 900 Turbo S http://saab.go.dyndns.org/