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Re: Random thought of the day
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Mon, 18 Jul 2005 23:04:00 GMT
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Gary Istok wrote:

Suzanne, after reading your website comments, I can see the strain that
this has had on your personal life.

Now for the tough question.... is Todd willing to give up the code to
Lugnet?
If so, then there may be hope for the future of Lugnet.  I have heard that
he
has been very protective of the code.  But what good is code if it is no
longer executed?

I see that as probably THE main stumbling block for the future of Lugnet.

Even with the code, specially if all is in PERL, it's till a daunting task
to maintain it all. There's (unfortunately IMHO) a reason pretty much every
website under the moon these days uses some "cheap" CMS system with a
simple webboard instead of the superb NNTP/webpost system LUGNET has (with
even mailing lists tied in)
--
Jan-Albert van Ree   | http://www.vanree.net/brickpiles/



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  LUGNET's code [was: Random thought of the day]
 
(...) yes. this touches on what I meant. And let me say, NNTP and the e-mail lists are extremely important to me. Todd was teaching himself Perl as he created LUGNET. This is what I'd call "personal project driven learning." Anyone who's done this (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general, FTX)

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(...) Suzanne, after reading your website comments, I can see the strain that this has had on your personal life. Now for the tough question.... is Todd willing to give up the code to Lugnet? If so, then there may be hope for the future of Lugnet. I (...) (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.admin.general)

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