Posted by Christopher J. Demers on Apr 27, 2004; 11:02pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/What-has-happened-to-Dolphin-Harbour-tp3370442p3370458.html

"Chris Uppal" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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> Or, another decentralised approach.  Someone (I'd be willing to do it
myself,
> if there's enough call for it, and buy-in -- in advance) would maintain
"links"
> list.  That list would be posted to this NG about once a month.  We, as a
> community, would be responsible for helping keep the list up to date.
Several
> (ideally most) of the third party web-site owners would undertake to
mirror the
> *current* list somewhere on their website (that's what I mean by buy-in),
so
> the list should be in the form of /simple/ HTML so as to make it easy for
> website owners to paste into their pages.  The list should also have a
"last
> checked and updated at" date featured prominently somewhere -- a stale
list is
> of little use.
>
> I don't know, but maybe it would be possible to create a rough index of
the
> packages that are available and distribute that in the same way.  I
suspect
> that would be going too far, and betoo difficult to maintain.  Thoughts
anyone
> ?
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I really like the idea of a list of Dolphin related links.  I also like the
idea of a list of packages, however I understand the difficulty involved in
maintaining it.  There are so many different sites with different offerings
it may not be obvious to a newbie exactly what is out there.  A list with
good descriptions would be great.  I don't think broken links are horrible
in a package list, though maybe they could be kept separate.  Sometimes it
is useful to know what _was_ out there, even if the links to it are broken
(someone may be able to dig it up again).

Chris