Form a user's group. Classicmp needs solidarity.

On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, R. D. Davis wrote: [...] [etc.] Yes, I know, bad thing to follow up on one's own e-mail, however, I just thought about something... an incorporated users group might be a bad idea in that it would lead to attempted computer preservation related activities by committee (and we all know how useless and annoying committees typically are), and people would end up squabbling over group politics, etc., spending more time on things pertaining to the group itself, than on hacking and preservation, which would be a bad thing. Also, once corporate sponsorship gets involved, unless there's a rule in the charter against such, it could become all the more of a tangled mess with the group doing what's best for certain business interests. How long before it would deteriorate into the Microsoft Historical Software Collectors Group or some such? -- Copyright (C) 2000 R. D. Davis "The best way to gain a true understanding of All Rights Reserved Wile E. Coyote on the Roadrunner cartoons is to rdd(a)perqlogic.com 410-744-4900 fly, head-first, off a horse into something like http://www.perqlogic.com/rdd a fence or a tree; trust me, this works." --RDD