SCN: websites to feature

[Joe Mabel]

I would think it would be worth at least providing a list that forwards to
SCNA Members' sites hosted elsewhere.

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Joe Mabel

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Rod Clark wrote:

> > Speaking of content...  did we quietly disappear commercial pages
> > and individual pages?  Rather than wait for an answer I'll
> > venture my opinion that if we did ban them then that was a
> > mistake...
>
> Doug,
>
>    Personal site hosting could have been very important for SCN
> in attracting users, volunteers and suport - a significant
> attraction (and maybe it still could be if we radically upgraded
> it.). But not as it is being offered now. Sadly, our personal
> site hosting is largely moribund because it is so behind the
> times and uncompetitive with the choices much better other that
> people have. Word of mouth has been very unkind to SCN on this.
> Our listing at http://www.scn.org/subscribers mostly hasn't been
> updated for quite a while, because almost no users are
> interested in new personal site hosting on SCN any more.
>
>    It's so clunky to make and maintain a personal site on SCN
> that people, especially those who are new to the Web, know not
> to come to SCN for that. Our Operations committee is adamant
> that it is impossible to allow our users to use FTP, for Ops'
> own reasons. This means that we have essentially thrown away any
> chance to catch up in this area, as long as we stick with such a
> user-unfriendly system as we have.
>
>    A few small businesses tried SCN and almost all have since
> moved elsewhere.
>
> Rod Clark
>
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