Is available on e-circles.com

I've started a one up, just to see if any of you prefer it.

You can't see it until I know e-mail addresses so I'll invite those of you whose e-mails I know.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Answers

I'm on there now by myself :))

It's a bit orange :) but it looks like it does very well with it's timestamping and ordering of threads which is what lets duncan's down a little...

However so far I've got to say that Duncan's is far faster...

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Well I tried to get in, but it keeps telling me that their is somebody already on there with the name Roz Sears, and my invitation is withdrawn. Was it something I said? (:o)

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Mac; had a look around and not bad. Interface is better than this one (so far, but working on it....). The main concern is speed and reliability. The machine hosting this lives at above.nets premier east cost hosting facility in Boston with a raft of other servers with guaranteed bandwidth.

The box running is a 4CPU HP K460 with 4gig of RAM and more mirrored disks than you can shake a stick at. The DB taking care of the hard stuff is Oracle.

Various other boards have been running consistently on this box for *five* years without anyone paying any money for them.

I'm trying to get some of the interface things tied up (though it's not all in my hands), and will soon be rotating 'control' of the board through the techies here so that the responsibility can be shared.

My main concern is keeping everyone together!

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Well I can't get on at all. Using

www.e-circles.com

Am I doing something wrong??

Jay

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

The 64,000 dollar question is whether a US based provider will be interested in continuing to host a largely UK based discussion forum after that ridiculous decision in the High Court yesterday.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

How come Dunx gets his postings in ahead of everyone else, it's not fair :)))

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Softie

Yesterday's decision was based on unclear EU law; Demon settled out of court because it was easier for them in the short term. The case hinged on the fact that they refused (or just didn't) to remove the contentious material about that chap. However, them ain problem seems to be tha lack of understanding of the situation by both the law as an entity, and the sitting judges/counsels as to how any of this works.

I'm not sure how well Demon put their case either.

EU law cannot cope with distributed systems; if Demon had removed those messages from the alt.soc.thai newsgroup on their server, it wouldn't have made any difference as those opinions would still have been in the wild on every self-replicating nntp box across the world.

Questions should have been asked as to where the defamatory remarks originated; was it from someone with a Demon account, if so Demon should have traced them from their records and given that information over to the offended chap so he could sue personally for libel.

Demon own the hardware on which those messages may have been stored and were in court because something on there offended someone; does this mean that I could be sued for libel because my PC at home may have information on which is defamatory to someone's character. Could BT have been prosecuted for carrying those messages over their telephone wires, and could Vint Cerf be prosecuted for designing TCP/IP/NNTP which allowed those messages to be carried as a series of 0s and 1s over a network. Could the guys who designed and built Eniac, the late Alan Turing and Charles Babbage be sued for designing concepts which allowed this to happen? Don't forget newspapers get sued for printing the opinions of their journalists.

Well, patently this is ridiculous, and the law will change.

The difference with the setup here, and particular with us is that I know who everybody is; no-one gets onto this board unless I say so, and any messages deemed offensive by me or any other member of the community can be removed by me immediately. Given that this system is not open or distributed, we have firm control over what gets posted.

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

I only saw your answer by chance, Duncan, thanks for giving me the clearest indication of what that was all about I've had yet. Any idea why your answers are slotted in out of chronological order?

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Softie; it's because I'm the sysadmin....I probably should create another role for myself so I can masquerade as a mere mortal

;-)

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Oh no! Cyberplank here seems to have joined it three times now!!!

I`ll get my coat - (:o(

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

For those of us that MacBeth hasn't mailed.

What the hell are you all talking about?????

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

I`m beginning to get a complex - having finally worked out what I should be doing (instead on joining every time I get on the site), it is still telling me that my invitation has been withdrawn! What did I do! What did I do! (:o{

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Perhap's its retaliation for coining the fantastic monika "Cyberplank" - brilliant, brilliant, brilliant!

Have you copyrighted it Roz?

-- Anonymous, March 31, 2000

Wouldn`t know how to Clarky - DOH!

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Fire talk is excellent. I have been on Adults Only Insults and it is a laugh. Go easy on me I'm on as tonytwoshoes EC; they added EC but I don't think anyone knows what it stands for, they just think I'm pissed, not far wrong either.

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

You`ve lost me there Tony - what or where is FireTalk?

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Fire talk is the Voice Chat rooms, you can join current groups or start your own either public or private. The Adults Only section is reallly very funny

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Okay - I had a lot of fun on the new chat site that Kegsy has. But I only managed to get in by pushing the link in Kegsys posting on the Bradford match thread. So where am I going wrong?

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

It was the e circles one that I couldn`t get into using the password I was sent. Has anybody used their password and gotten in?

As for Kegsy`s one, I`ve just typed in www.gallowgate.com, but can`t get any further than the page telling me the site is under construction.

Please, somebody put me right before next weekend!

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Galaxy...it's www.thegallowgate.com :-)

-- Anonymous, April 01, 2000

Thank you Ciara. I will get better at this - promise! (:o)

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2000

Okay, I can get into everything now, and am feeling pretty smug! I really like The Gallowgates chat room, and I`m beginning to find my way around the e circles (come out feeling kinda `Tangoed` though!) Sstill feel inclined to use this one most of the time - more my speed I guess, plus I have a certain affection for it as the liferaft I scrambled aboard. Still very grateful to Duncan.

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2000

Give us a clue - what are e-circles, wahat are you all talking about. Is this a private club - invites only?

-- Anonymous, April 02, 2000