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Index of Subjects Re: Peter Morgan's suggestion, this debate moving to ccn-comm. Andrew On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Christopher Majka wrote: > Hi all, > > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, wrote: > > > > I disagree. As I said, the majority of our users are on Windows > > > systems. There is no Y2K compliant version of Windows. This qualifies as > > > urgent news. We have a one-stop page of Windows fixes up. No one else > > > does, not even Microsoft. We should be shouting this from the roof tops. > > > It should be the easiest thing to find. > > > > Y2K isn't CCN's concern when it comes to users. We shouldn't be > > holding their hands and we shouldn't be cluttering up our Homepage with > > such a link. We can put a link in the HelpDesk and mention in the MOTD > > that if someone has a problem with Y2K, they can ask userhelp or find > > the page at: given url. > > I agree. At present the home page of the Chebucto Community Net is not the > place to advertise Y2K. While there may be all sorts of things that are > true of the demographics of CCN users (majority: male, anglo-saxon, > Christian, certain age and income brackets, watch X-files, Globe & Mail > readers, etc.) this doesn't mean we necessarily need to include links from > the home page to Viagra, mutual funds, X-files, Globe & Mail, etc. at > least with the current focus of what we are doing. The local community is > our focus, particularly in terms of the home page. > > This is not to say that we couldn't take another approach (like Sympatico, > Netscape, Yahoo, etc.) and provide a very generalized set of links to all > sorts of resources that could conceiveably be of interest to our > readers/users. I doubt that we could at present support such an approach, > at least not without the advertising and funding which underpin other such > sites. > > Cheers, > > Chris > > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > Christopher Majka <aa051@chebucto.ns.ca> > Editor-in-Chief: Chebucto Community Net - Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada > URL = http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Home.html > > "We have ... in this country ... far too many captive editors who cannot > even be heard to rattle their chains." -- Carl E. Lindstrom > _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._. > >
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