Hi Bob,

On 08-Aug-03, Bob Stout wrote to r.scudder:

 >> I don't know everything that he did, but one thing was to make it
 >> available as a mailing list.  I haven't bothered to take the time
 >> to understand exactly how Yahoo Groups works.  I just know that it
 >> is the easiest way to receive the C Echo...  not necessarily the
 >> best way.  Of course, which is best and which is easiest is
 >> entirely subjective.

 BS> This has been recently discussed... Now that my long employment
 BS> dry spell is over, I have a fortuitous mix of finances,
 BS> enthusiasm, and time to devote to everything SNIPPETS (which
 BS> includes the C site, the audio site, and others), and have begun.

If you want help, I'm able to devote some time to working on SNIPPETS
(however money is in short supply as work is a fadeing memory).
The motivation is the use I've made of it for my commercial work
(Control systems & Embedded systems) and wanting to return something
(even if only the modified julian.c code I've used).
I've also got an archive of a prototype public domain portable version
of Al Stevens DFLAT library which I've done a little work on.
I don't currently have Inet access, but I suspect Neil Walker (my
other boss node, I'm 2:250/501.3 there) who is on the Inet full time
would co-operate in providing access for this type of project.

 BS> The first concrete result of interest here will be a C_Echo-style
 BS> mailing list. As soon as that's officially published, Tom and I
 BS> have agreed in principle to explore ways to gate the Fido C_Echo
 BS> to the new mailing list with hopefully more reliability that has
 BS> been evinced by Yahoo. Charles will also be glad to know that I
 BS> plan to set it up so that while I will have to be the List admin
 BS> (i.e. I have the root password for the server), the list moderator
 BS> can, and hopefully will, be someone else.

Sounds good to me. A moderated list will make it easier to fire-fight
to occasional flame war.

George

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