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[Ross Moore]

Hi John,

> http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/latex2html/2000-06/msg00013.html
> 
> since my msg to the list only generated private responses from Uli and
> Marek saying they've been quite busy lately - I assume the same is true for
> Ross (maybe even moreso)

I'm just getting to the end of a very busy period.
But interest in LaTeX2HTML is hotting-up;
activity on this list has increased significantly these last
couple of weeks.
 
> in any event, I have registered latex2html.org, with the intention of
> donating it to the project whenever it's clear where it should live:

Excellent initiative. ;-)


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> I don't have much free time either, so I'm not casting stones at anyone -
> I'm just trying to spur some consolidation of the development effort.
> Personally, I'd like to recommend that the project move to SourceForge:
> 
>   http://www.sourceforge.net/
> 
> which provides hosting, cvs repository with public/private access, mailing
> lists, bug tracking, etc. for projects - details here:
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/docs/site/services.php
> 
> but someone needs to step forward and start volunteering to do some of
> this

Until that happens, you could setup the nameservers to alias the bayreuth site.
Then attempts to access  latex2html.org would bounce directly to  saftsack .
Further, if the  saftsack  machine has its web-server configured correctly,
it can use the  latex2html.org  name as well, so that a surfer would not
know that they were being served from Germany, not the USA.

Then, if/when we decide to utilise the full benefits of sourceforge ,
the transfer would be virtually transparent.

 
> I know it's kind of nice to be connected with tug.org, but I wonder if it
> might not be better to just have a pointer from tug to a dedicated L2H site
> hosted somewhere like SourceForge

Given that tug.org is moving to Denmark, then such a change might be a good thing 
to do if there is a noticeable change in performance.
However, we are just talking about the mailing list, yes?
Oh, and the mailing-list archives.


Comments, and volunteers, welcome.

	Ross Moore

 
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