At 08:54 PM 12/3/98 +0100, Arthur Teschler wrote:
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Richard Heli wrote:
Hmmm, I am not sure. Is it really best to have the pages removed right away? They will not be out of date for a while. Perhaps it would be more useful to leave them until the 21st so that people will at least find something? In the meantime we could publicize on s.g.g that people should change their links?
Just a thought -- what do you think?
I'm afraid most people who visit our pages are not on any mailing list and won't read any of our announcements anyway. If we wait until the 21st we just delay the problem and play Broderbund's cards. If we have our contents deleted now and inform the key sites (Cindy's list, Altavista etc.) about the change, we have the same gap of desinformation but not for Broderbund's profit.
Sorry, I don't understand? These people who are not on any mailing list are not likely to visit the site in the next 2 weeks either. And getting them to update their bookmarks takes even longer. So it makes no difference. Br0derbund will get all kinds of visits no matter what -- we can't stop it. Meanwhile, we may be adding more load to Rainer's server when maybe we should stop spending time on this and instead try to figure out how to get an American server running before the 21st comes or at least as soon as we can. Rick
Arthur.Teschler@uni-giessen.de