Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: connecting to oooforum.org

On 08/14/2013 12:39 PM, Dave Barton wrote:
> Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > On 08/13/2013 02:32 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
> > > 1. http://www.oooforum.org The independent "unofficial" one Jim was
> > > referring to. For reasons nobody has been able to explain, their server
> > > is at best unreliable and frequently times out.
> > oooforum was setup and is controlled by a single very busy person with
> > no help from anyone else in any way. So, it uses resources available to
> > this person and is maintained by this person. The other forum is
> > maintained by a group of volunteers so there are more people to fix it.
> Yes Andrew, I am fully aware of the history behind oooforum.org and the
> number of times in 10+ years the owner has refused outside help. You & I
> both remember in the early days of OOo it was proposed to merge the two
> forums and Ed would not even join in the discussion. He may well be a
> very busy person and as you observe in another post "you could call it a
> sentimental attachment", but over the years users have contributed a
> vast amount of useful material, which is all too frequently locked away
> from other users because of his personal workload and/or sentimentality.
>
> My original reply was not intended as a criticism, it was just note to
> indicate that one of the two longest established forums was not always
> accessible.
I did not take it as a criticism.... I just assumed you were not aware.

I would prefer if an external host were found so that others could help 
with the administration. I expect that it is just a question of how to 
do it so that the current owner would not lose their personal attachment 
to it and thus be willing to do it. My guess is that he does not visit 
it often because he was not aware that it was down. He told me that /var 
had run out of space. When I just checked, I could connect, but could 
get nothing to display.

I am not aware of any way to scrape the content, perhaps someone more 
talented than I would know how to do that.

--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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