Re: New subscriber has questions

On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Emilio Perea <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 08:52:52AM -0600, Antone Roundy wrote:
>> Just subscribed yesterday, and I have a few questions:
>>
>> * Is this mailing list active?
>
> Not really.  As a matter of fact the last two messages I see were sent
> exactly two years ago today.  There were 53 other messages in 2006, but
> none since.
>
> I subscribed on 2002-02-02, and have 658 messages from the rest of that
> year, 131 from 2003, 215 from 2004 and 48 from 2005.  The first year's
> totals were inflated by 77 messages from a clueless idiot or bot that
> rejoiced in the name "Info Bordello".  There may have been others. OTOH,
> when I check the range of message ID numbers, I see that I may be
> missing 283 messages during this period.
>
>
>> * Are there any existing implementations on IM2000?
>
> If there are, the authors are keeping them to themselves.  AFAIK, the
> project has been abandoned (though I would love to be proven wrong in
> this).
>

A few interesting posts have been made, including these:

http://homepages.tesco.net/J.deBoynePollard/Softwares/IM2000/

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-985396858578246176

http://magma.com.ni/~jorge/index_2.html

-- 
Dr Andrew Nimmo

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