DOS ain't dead

What's the problem? You will not have time to maintain forum? or it's end of your paid domain/hosting? If it's not a technical issue why not to leave it running as is? If yes I hope that someone else who have possibility will host forum on his site. For all cases, before you'll shutdown, can you please upload somewhere zipped content of this forum? maybe plain text. Some years ago I did it via some script calling wget to dump this forum but I belive you can better handle it and produce some exported file(s). Anyway thanks for your work till now, good luck!

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> Dear all,
>
> This is to let you know that I have come to the decision to close this
> forum.

Well that blows.

> Over the last years this forum was a great success, but also a big
> challenge sometimes.

A few minor issues, I guess, but overall a great success. It's amazing we've discussed so much and shared so much information, links, etc. I'm proud of it, and I assume you'll agree.

> Now it's time to move on to other things. I'm sure
> you'll all respect my decision.

Well, I'm not that surprised, esp. as you have a new baby and all. And yes, things change. Of course it's your decision, and we have no choice, but indeed I can't help but respect your (successful) efforts over the years.

I wish you well in whatever you do in the future. (I know that doesn't mean much coming from me, but ....)

> I genuinely want to thank each and everyone of you who have helped this
> forum over the years.

There are still newsgroups and some other random forums (e.g. FASM), so we'll live. Too bad, though, it was indeed a nice little forum.

> The forum will officially close on 2011-09-19. All contents will
> disappear then.
> If anyone wishes to continue this forum somewhere else, please contact me.

Whew, not a lot of time!!! Sadly, I truly can't help migrate or host myself else I probably would. Yes, keeping the archive of information available would be nice for posterity, but I guess it's not totally critical.

Thanks again for your efforts over the years. Hope all goes well for you and yours. If anyone ever says "DOS is dead" (as they probably will), I'll fondly remember this forum and all its brilliant geeks.

> Over the last years this forum was a great success, but also a big
> challenge sometimes. Now it's time to move on to other things. I'm sure
> you'll all respect my decision.

I'm not sure I will.

> I genuinely want to thank each and everyone of you who have helped this
> forum over the years.
> The forum will officially close on 2011-09-19. All contents will
> disappear then.
> If anyone wishes to continue this forum somewhere else, please contact me.

I offer space on my site. But someone else will have to take over the moderator/administrator job.

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MS-DOS forever!

> The forum will officially close on 2011-09-19. All contents will disappear then.

Could you please keep it as read-only for some time after 2011-09-19 and upload the forum database somewhere ?

PS: IIRC there had been multiple DEATH announces about this forum in the past, all false so far

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> This is to let you know that I have come to the decision to close this
> forum.
> Over the last years this forum was a great success, but also a big
> challenge sometimes. Now it's time to move on to other things. I'm sure
> you'll all respect my decision.

Of course. Good luck in your future endeavors, whatever they may be!

Well, it has been a good forum, but nothing lasts forever. Good luck in your future pursuits!

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First, a big thank you. I am a relatively recent participant here, but I have found it a great resource, especially for those of us who write code.


I'd like to see this continue, somewhere, somehow. Losing critical mass would be a bad thing. If there are options you can discuss for keeping this going (with somebody else taking responsibility, hosting it, etc.) please let us know.


Mike

Dear all,

You have probably noticed, that I have received a lot of public feedback (plus a few private mails) on my announcement to close this forum. Thanks for that! I didn't know, that this forum is such an important part of the DOS community.

Today I have also received a large donation via PayPal from an unknown US guy to keep the forum alive.
Well, folks, I'm not trying to get rich now, but:
"DOS ain't dead" will stay online after 2011-09-19!

A special thanks to these people for their interest in hosting this forum: Glenn McCorkle, RayeR, Japheth, Michael B. Brutman, Jim Hall, Markus Maussner, and Michal H. Tyc. -- Maybe next time ...

Robert Riebisch

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