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Hosting Service Closes 3000 Blogs Without Notice
marmoset writes "Citing the high costs of running the free service, performance
concerns, and health problems, Dave Winer closed down the weblogs.com
hosting service without any prior notice. As many as 3000 sites are now inacessible, and
the users who want to transfer their data elsewhere have to ask
(politely) for it to be exported. As might be expected, reactions range from understanding
to
enraged.
Netcraft has a report, too."
How dare you do this to the community. I am going to put this on the front page of slashdot.org and gnaa.org. Lets see if you can pay your hosting costs then.
CmdrTaco 6/15/04; 11:32:29 PM
heh.. nice one, CmdrTaco. ok everyone, go browse every page on this dick's domain until he chokes on the hosting bill.
one world | many people
I have an unlimited amount of storage and bandwidth....
Contact me, Ill host it...
info@gyrogliderentals.com
The Code Ninja is swift with his tool, precise in his delivery, and deadly accurate in his execution.
The death toll from the Troubles in N. Ireland is currently around 4,000. Large parts of Manchester city centre were flattened after the IRA set off a 3000lb bomb there. Yet nobody feels they have to tiptoe around the subject and not use it as a metaphor because someone might be offended.
Stop being such a typical self-righteous American.
Now that I have your attention, let's summarize the threads, shall we?
48%: Dave Winer is a [great guy | internet saint | complete a**hat | arrogant prick] and something must be seriously wrong with his [health | mind | attitude | bowels] to have to abruptly discontinue this service.
47%: Blogs are a [useful tool | brilliant form of self-expression | blight on the internet | form of intellectual masturbation] and should be [lauded in all the earth | trumpeted from the hilltops | wiped from the face of the internet | grounds for committment to a mental health facility].
3%: No backups? HA HA!
1.998%: Blogs make using Google hard. Waah.
0.002%: Isn't Slashdot a form of weblogging?
Of course, the most interesting thing here is that reading the posts on each viewpoint tells you more about the writer than about the thing they are writing about. Oh no! Recursive weblogging! Damn, and I used to have a life before this whole internet thing.
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> Try using Google to find some new names to call people
how do you google for a word you do not know exists?
Fucktard...