DOS ain't dead

Hi all!

For personal reasons I will drop this forum after 31 December 2007.

Therefore I am looking for a reliable maintainer, who wants to continue driving this forum on his own web space. Forum software "my little forum" is based on PHP and MySQL. I will send forum/ folder containing all PHP and uploaded image files + latest SQL database dump. I will also try to provide some limited support to get the forum running.

If no new maintainer can be found, this forum will be set to read-only mode from 01 January 2008.

Regards
Robert Riebisch
P.S. This decision is not related to recent flame wars.

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> For personal reasons I will drop this forum after 31 December
> 2007.

What are those "personal reasons"?

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MS-DOS forever!

> What are those "personal reasons"?

I don't want to talk about.

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> > What are those "personal reasons"?
>
> I don't want to talk about.

That's understandable. Nobody wants to air all their personal issues online (at least, I don't). Let's hope that everything goes well for you and yours in the future. And thanks for all your efforts so far.

Previously, you hinted about us heading to news://comp.os.msdos.misc (or similar). So, maybe we should all consider that.

> Previously, you hinted about us heading to
> news://comp.os.msdos.misc
> (or similar). So, maybe we should all consider that.

An unmoderated news group? No, thanks!

A better idea possibly is to use forumsplace (same as David Lindauer uses for CC386). This allows to change the admin/moderator quickly without moving the forum. Some time ago I already tried to create a forum, but there was an error reported. If someone is able to succeed, please tell us!

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MS-DOS forever!

> news://comp.os.msdos.misc
> (or similar). So, maybe we should all consider that.

Hm, seems to be often attacked by spammer MFKRs like DJGPP group. Here wasn't this problem. Anyway thanks to RR for this place, hope I met all you elsewhere together not spreaded over millions forums.

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DOS gives me freedom to unlimited HW access.

> An unmoderated news group? No, thanks!

What do you fear?

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> > An unmoderated news group? No, thanks!
>
> What do you fear?

I fear nothing . But judging from ALA I have to say that such groups don't look too inviting. A nice forum with a caring mod is ways better.

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MS-DOS forever!

> I fear nothing . But judging from ALA I have to say that such groups
> don't look too inviting. A nice forum with a caring mod is ways better.

But Usenet usually works fine. Just remember: "Don't feed the trolls."

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> Just remember: "Don't feed the trolls."

I love the taste of troll meat, I can't resist, sorry!

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MS-DOS forever!

> For personal reasons I will drop this forum after 31 December
> 2007.

This forum will not be dropped.

(a.k.a. "Rin inne Kartoffeln, raus aus de Kartoffeln.")

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> > For personal reasons I will drop this forum after 31 December
> > 2007.
>
> This forum will not be dropped.

Nice to hear ... at least for me. I will hurry to tell my fiends ...

> (a.k.a. "Rin inne Kartoffeln, raus aus de Kartoffeln.")

So many erratic guys out there! Is it really that much fun to be a slave of your emotions?

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MS-DOS forever!

> > This forum will not be dropped.
>
> Nice to hear ... at least for me. I will hurry to tell my fiends ...

Don't forget your friends.

> > (a.k.a. "Rin inne Kartoffeln, raus aus de Kartoffeln.")
>
> So many erratic guys out there! Is it really that much fun to be a slave
> of your emotions?

Definitely not! Still trying to change... but it's very hard.

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> This forum will not be dropped.

Good news! Will you be announcing it at the EDR-DOS forum? A premature notice of this forum's death should be corrected somehow.

> (a.k.a. "Rin inne Kartoffeln, raus aus de Kartoffeln.")

So your potatoes will be in order for a while longer?

> > Nice to hear ... at least for me. I will hurry to tell my fiends ...
>
> Don't forget your friends.

I'm sure this forum's fiends will be quite pleased to know the latest news.

> Will you be announcing it at the EDR-DOS forum?

Never heard about that.

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