Comments on: The history of Mozilla newsgroups

By: td

td — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 23:23:00 +0000

Let them rant,

By: Sebhelyesfarku

Sebhelyesfarku — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 11:23:00 +0000

The new Mozilla newsgroups should be interleaved with porn newsgroups, in this way a lot of people would hear about the project accidentaly and switch to Mozilla from IE.

By: DJC

DJC — Sat, 27 Aug 2005 01:45:00 +0000

Update

By: splib_Km-mode

splib_Km-mode — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:22:00 +0000

there is a solution to lack of ngs separate from dev groups. if hip/h1p/hh.11.pp/h0pcriminey or alt.support.flame.fart or whatever empty junk group can get his/her ng’s listed in usenet, mozilla should be able to get a few USABLE ngs listed.

try:
alt.fan.firefox
alt.fan.seamonkey (since moz-org recently “released” self of responsiblity for SM, so let the sm ‘council’ create the usenet ng)
alt.fan.tbird
alt.fan.moz-xpi or alt.fan.moz-extensions
alt.fan.moz-theme

or even better, omit the .fan
eg,
alt.firefox
alt.gecko-suite
alt.thunderbird
alt.moz-theme
alt.moz-privacy

maybe comp.firefox is better? really doesn’t matter as much as fixing the current silly situation.

Q for comparison: how ever did alt.fan.mozilla come about? Is the process that a.f.m used defunct only years later?

[I intend to copy gist of (my) comment to a.f.m, including link to your essay/blog-entry]

By: splib_ kmeleon-mode

splib_ kmeleon-mode — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:21:00 +0000

btw, a “permalink” to this essay of yours (regarding secnews mess) should be in the rotating faq-sigs of secnews ‘champs’. It shhould reduce the back-rants/back-flames that are just repeated annoyances (including, annoying to the guys trying to help).

By: splib_ kmeleon-mode

splib_ kmeleon-mode — Tue, 02 Aug 2005 02:19:00 +0000

“face” said “Am I arrogant? Why yes I am.”

i guess meant in context of misleading aspects of the ng mess? perhaps a joke?

By: Chris Ilias

Chris Ilias — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:55:00 +0000

FACE, what’s your point?

By: FACE

FACE — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:42:00 +0000

For an early morning, I read your commentary on the history of the mozilla (netscape)SSL server and newsgroups and usenet propagation of the developer groups.
Like I said somewhere else, a mission can start out with lofty goals and end up very different than those goals. This appears to be the case with the mozilla.public groups.

Several weeks ago, I was presented with a rant on one of the mozilla.public groups that referred to me as one of “you developer types”. That at least brought me a smile — because in another life I am used to such and see it for what it is — someone who his afraid of the knowledge of others. So the developer groups have become something much different than intended — and I am not a developer nor do I have any intimate knowledge of the Mozilla products. But I sometimes must seem quite cavalier and maybe derisive as well. Why is that?

Probably because — though i have purposely avoided the technical aspects of ‘the net’, I have a lot of concept regarding “electronic data processing” (there’s a term i doubt you hear too much).

Judging from your photo on the previous page, about the time you were born — late sixties maybe –i was plugging breadboards on IBM business machines. I had a decade break from DP, then blew into DP as a Systems Analyst for several years, thence into the job of Systems Programmer in the last half of the eighties and early nineties. I studiously avoided PC’s, which were just coming into importance in order not to sully my VM/CICS/VSE syntactical knowledge. But when i was “freed” i got a 386 and found that a file was still a file, an application was still an application, a system a system — though it was ASCII instead of EBCDIC. And on a light note, I kept truckin’on a much lower note.

Am I arrogant? Why yes I am.

I am not unused to the user community though — and users to me range form the totally clueless to programmers.

To me, it’s all about concept, then the details fall into place a lot more easily.

BTW, if your text below says “publish your comment”, it looks like you need to widen the table – or box – or whatever it’s called.

FACE