Web cvs

[Russell Miller]

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On Tuesday 24 February 2004 18:59, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> After 197 complaints in my inbox, generated by the immature as$hole who
> spammed all the lists without coming to me first for discussion,  plus
> all the traffic in the lists, I have solved the problem.
>
> WEB CVS IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE.
>
> ANON-CVS IS GONE AS WELL.
>
> I am very happy that folks who handle all the rest of the services have
> unlimited income and can afford to host and give away services forever
> for free. There was no graphics on the page, there was a one line link.
> For a server that takes 15,000+ hits a day on webcvs, and a lot of CVS
> access, and a lot of my bandwidth I do not think that this 1 link is to
> much to ask.
>
For complaining about an "immature as$hole" who sent a message to the list 
without discussing things with you, you're remarkably flippant about removing 
services that people depend upon with no notice or discussion.  Perhaps there 
could have been a resolution to this to make everyone happy.  For example, 
simply taking your server out of the ".kde.org" namespace, or adding a 
disclaimer that the machine was not hosted by KDE,  would have resolved my 
concerns nicely, and then you could put whatever advertisements you want on 
it.

Instead, you just take services down.  I see all of your points, and I 
understand where you are coming from, but you should not have put up services 
that you knew people would depend for if you weren't prepared to discuss any 
issues that people might have with the way that you managed them.

Because of this, I think it is probably best all around that KDE finds another 
place to host webcvs and anoncvs.  I'm sorry it had to come to this.

- --Russell

> -Chris

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