to the new owner/s....

[HTRegz]

I have a suggestion.. I doubt it will do any good, but it's a suggestion none-the-less.

For those of you that want AO IRC to stay up (I myself wouldn't mind it for the few times i got there, but am pretty much neutral) why doesn't someone offer to purchase the right to use irc.antionline.com from Jupiter Media and have it pointed at their... or requestion that Jupiter Media point it at your server for free, it never hurts to ask.. And then you can maintain the AO IRC server.. After all I'm sure someone here has the resources to run an IRCd.. instead of complaining about losing it, try to reach a compromise..

[allenb1963]

Hmmmmm...I don't recall anyone bitching about JP having a 'gold dot' when his first appeared. It was accepted since JP founded AO and it was HIS site. Now the site belongs to Jupiter Media, and so does the gold dot...precisely for the same reason JP has one...it was his baby. Now it's their perogative where the gold dots go because now it's THEIR baby.

Face it folks....the times they are a changing and we have no control over that. All we can do is to continue to try to support the community and take things one day at a time...remember, change is the one true contstant in the universe and we owe it to ourselves to give it a chance. Personally I'm going to reserve my judgement till I see what our new owner brings into the wonderful world of AO, and I would hope that most of you would have the courtesy to do the same.

[er0k]

Hey at least they are going to keep the site running *close* to how it was. Give them props for that. i guess..

[Uhu]

Originally posted here by prodikal


Well Uhu if they are providing help to exploit services with there 'tools' well i say go right ahead why you may ask....Simple because if they are exploiting new services they are showing a potential weakness in the daemon and they will notify the developer ASAP (obviously) and a patch will be provided (hopefully) and this in turn will make all our systems more secure (hopefully)

@prodikal

I think the meaning of "to exploit" in this case is not to check systems for weaknesses and to develop patches. In their context "to exploit" means something like harvesting or exploiting resources.


Just my 0,02€


Uhu

[RiOtEr]

my resons for this post was to find out their reasoning for not wanting irc not bitching like some people thinks
[their was a rant in here but negative squashed my fears]

well either which way ill be sticking around i belive we owe it to jp to at least keep the site he put so much time and effort into keep running into the future
just my random drunken babbelings
rioter

[Midridth]

I just read over the posts and I think at this point we have a few options...

1. wait it out and see what happens (most realistic)
2. take HTRegz's suggestion and someone put up their own IRC server and redirect irc.antionline.com to that server (either pay for it or have JupMan do it for free)
3. we set up a good 'ol BBS (this is my prefered lol). I love the old things. For anyone who doesn't know what they are, they were around in the 80s and early 90s. They are message board/chat/game center that people used to dial into, now people use telnet.

Realisticaly though? I'd say that we have to go down route 1.

[invader]

I guess the issue is resolved.
JP has promised a new IRC server at irc.securitalk.com , of what i know.
So why still posting about that guys ?

[AciDriveHB]

(V)/\><, sorry I miss took what you said. Sometimes when you read things, and don't hear the tone, you can "read into" things deeper!

[aeallison]

I would have written more in my last post only my keyboard was f***ed up. now I have a different keyboard and will elaborate....

I would complaing about him giving himself the top 2 antipoint spots on the top10 list more then that... And besides, we already showed what happens when he starts with one green dot. Oh yeah, and one other thing... JP gave him the gold dot, he didn't give it to himself.


And we are not? Why?

<rant>What i am refering here to those who could not read into my short post is that JupMan and his partner, ( I cannot remember the name ) have placed themselves at the top of the top 10 antipoint earners. This is NOT right as it took a lot of us a lot of time and contibuting to this site to attain this status. And status is what it is, personally, I don't care who owns this site, we run it! And if they want my respect they will have to earn it! </rant>