i saw that, is that what it is? cos ive got some hot news about the new big brother series, and i don't want to get in trouble by posting it in the chit chat section on wos. :D
i saw that, is that what it is? cos ive got some hot news about the new big brother series, and i don't want to get in trouble by posting it in the chit chat section on wos. :D
Nice idea retrospecced but here is the largest gathering of Speccy users so like others i would rather post here.
Glad you are contributing here but to get another Sinclair forum up and running and active is probably a difficult task
WoSF managed to surpass CSS. CSS surpassed SincNews. "All you need" is a decent set of posters sending in good content, and have that content presented in an easy-to-use manner.
Of course, first you need to get those posters, and that's always going to be a marathon rather than a sprint (unless your predecessor practically disappears overnight, leaving a self-selected few behind, as what happened with SincNews).
Maybe I should send a subscribe meaage to lserv@psg.com and see what happens!
If it does exist, it's one of the few remaining Sinclair related channels that have escaped a CSSCGC 2008 compo announcement, and that is unacceptable. :D
I had never heard of SincNews before. Do you know if it still clings on to existence with the select few? Or has it gone the way of the dodo?
Gone the way of the dodo. I can't remember the story exactly, but the maintainer of the SincNews mailing list was using a mailserver based at either his current workplace or uni (or something like that) and he was about to leave, meaning that the mailing list would likely be taken off the server (it was a significant load back then, in 1992/3), so he started off the proceedings to form the comp.sys.sinclair Usenet group.
There was a small hardcore on the mailing list who either couldn't or wouldn't subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, so one of them started their own SincNews mailserver that the handful of people could use instead. Of course, most people immediately went to CSS, and so the resurrected mailing list died a slow death through lack of posts and posters.
Drawing possible parallels to recent history is left as an exercise for the reader.
Gone the way of the dodo. I can't remember the story exactly, but the maintainer of the SincNews mailing list was using a mailserver based at either his current workplace or uni (or something like that) and he was about to leave, meaning that the mailing list would likely be taken off the server (it was a significant load back then, in 1992/3), so he started off the proceedings to form the comp.sys.sinclair Usenet group.
(expletive deleted) that. I pay enough tax. I'm not visiting some ad infested (expletive deleted).
:lol:
Couldn't stop laughing at that.
I just watched Jay & Silent Bob the other day, if I hadn't this might not be funny.
Oh, no. Every time you turn up something monumental and terrible happens.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
Well, I registered on your forum, but I cannot excuse the horrendous lack of punctuation in "CLIVES". Just how many CLIVES are there? Or, did you mean "CLIVE'S Drives"? "Readers CLIVES" also has the same error. Please fix this or I will leave.
After some searching around today, I found out that the SincNews mailing list used to be archived at wuarchive.wustl.edu, but that all went years ago.
However, they do have a contact address at that present day site where you can query them on missing files from the old archives. At least they recognise that a lot of stuff used to be hosted there, and that some of it may be important to someone, somewhere.
I used to use wuarchive.wustl.edu quite a bit myself back in the early to mid '90s, how the Internet has changed since then!
If you also search comp.sys.sinclair posts from around the 1994-1996 timeframe you'll find mention (or at least queries) of it possibly being archived elsewhere back then in places such as such as ftp.nvg.unit.no and garbo.uwasa.fi. No longer it seems, if indeed it ever was.
However, I did find two posts from the original SincNews mailing list that somehow survive on the web today:-
Well, I registered on your forum, but I cannot excuse the horrendous lack of punctuation in "CLIVES". Just how many CLIVES are there? Or, did you mean "CLIVE'S Drives"? "Readers CLIVES" also has the same error. Please fix this or I will leave.
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BTW I'm just pulling your proverbial chain.
Either will do!
Chortle, chortle...
Burn!
Andrew
EVEN FERRETS are welcome. We're an EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES forum :lol:
Hmm, maybe I'll just hang a few nice paintings here and there!
:)
You didn't bump into Eugene's Lair then?
i saw that, is that what it is? cos ive got some hot news about the new big brother series, and i don't want to get in trouble by posting it in the chit chat section on wos. :D
Or am I channelling Miles again?
Post away then ... I guess.
I already post on the best, why bother with the rest?
I go where the action is - if there's enough quality activity there one day, I'll join it and take part there as well as on WoSF.
OK I finished my bottle of red so I feel free to swear and I will regret it in the morning. The wine or the swearing? Probably both.
(expletive deleted) that. I pay enough tax. I'm not visiting some ad infested (expletive deleted).
My posts are all crap anyway so you aren't missing content of any value and you aren't getting any click through revenue from me.
Cheers
-dekh
Glad you are contributing here but to get another Sinclair forum up and running and active is probably a difficult task
WoSF managed to surpass CSS. CSS surpassed SincNews. "All you need" is a decent set of posters sending in good content, and have that content presented in an easy-to-use manner.
Of course, first you need to get those posters, and that's always going to be a marathon rather than a sprint (unless your predecessor practically disappears overnight, leaving a self-selected few behind, as what happened with SincNews).
I had never heard of SincNews before. Do you know if it still clings on to existence with the select few? Or has it gone the way of the dodo?
I'm guessing it is dead now, but I found this page
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/ql/lis/sincnews.txt
Maybe I should send a subscribe meaage to lserv@psg.com and see what happens!
If it does exist, it's one of the few remaining Sinclair related channels that have escaped a CSSCGC 2008 compo announcement, and that is unacceptable. :D
Cheers, DP
Gone the way of the dodo. I can't remember the story exactly, but the maintainer of the SincNews mailing list was using a mailserver based at either his current workplace or uni (or something like that) and he was about to leave, meaning that the mailing list would likely be taken off the server (it was a significant load back then, in 1992/3), so he started off the proceedings to form the comp.sys.sinclair Usenet group.
There was a small hardcore on the mailing list who either couldn't or wouldn't subscribe to a Usenet newsgroup, so one of them started their own SincNews mailserver that the handful of people could use instead. Of course, most people immediately went to CSS, and so the resurrected mailing list died a slow death through lack of posts and posters.
Drawing possible parallels to recent history is left as an exercise for the reader.
Thanks for the detailed info NickH, that's very informative!
Is there an archive of sincnews posts anywhere?
D.
:lol:
Couldn't stop laughing at that.
I just watched Jay & Silent Bob the other day, if I hadn't this might not be funny.
I don’t think I have the stomach for it.
--Raziel (Legend of Kain: Soul Reaver 2)
https://www.youtube.com/user/VincentTSFP
Heh heh.... "I am the clit commander"!! :lol:
Well, I registered on your forum, but I cannot excuse the horrendous lack of punctuation in "CLIVES". Just how many CLIVES are there? Or, did you mean "CLIVE'S Drives"? "Readers CLIVES" also has the same error. Please fix this or I will leave.
[/grammar nazi]
After some searching around today, I found out that the SincNews mailing list used to be archived at wuarchive.wustl.edu, but that all went years ago.
However, they do have a contact address at that present day site where you can query them on missing files from the old archives. At least they recognise that a lot of stuff used to be hosted there, and that some of it may be important to someone, somewhere.
I used to use wuarchive.wustl.edu quite a bit myself back in the early to mid '90s, how the Internet has changed since then!
If you also search comp.sys.sinclair posts from around the 1994-1996 timeframe you'll find mention (or at least queries) of it possibly being archived elsewhere back then in places such as such as ftp.nvg.unit.no and garbo.uwasa.fi. No longer it seems, if indeed it ever was.
However, I did find two posts from the original SincNews mailing list that somehow survive on the web today:-
http://www.ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg02656.html
http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.199x/msg02552.html
I don't know why these two posts alone have survived on the web, perhaps there are more!
Be careful searching though, as there is something else out there called SincNews, unrelated to the speccy mailing list.
Fixed, ESPECIALLY FOR YOU!
Why, thank you very much!