Alt-BEAM Archive
Message #01504
To: dennlill@buffnet.net dennlill@buffnet.net; beam@corp.sgi.com
From: TurtleTek@aol.com TurtleTek@aol.com
Date: March 12, 1999 10:15 PM
Subject: Re: lets try this one more time...
>In a message dated 3/12/99 11:46:34 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
>dennlill@buffnet.net writes:
>
>> I think people severly underestimate the amount of energy it takes to
build
>> a strong, and informative web site. Copying stuff from someone else
isn't
>> too hard, but the effort such pages like ian's and Fangs is extrodinary.
Do
>> you know how much effort making schematics is?
>
>I agree, however, I am not one of those people that underestimate. Do you
know
>how long it took me to produce my site, as crappy as it is? 4 months. Yeah,
>that's right. (well...it maybe due to the fact I do my HTML by hand, no
>editors for me). I went nuts trying to make good schems, I eventually gave
up
>for the moment (I'll eventually have my own..). I'm just saying that Fang's
>site has two features, no more and it is "advertised" in many "links" pages
as
>being something that it's not. I'm not trying to insult anyone or take any
of
>the "glory" that is rightfully Fang's, just making an observation.
>What you must remember is that the average BEAM site makes up most of the
>sites and is very important resource. A newbie may read through a bunch of
>these sites and come out with a more complete view of BEAM than if he just
>visited Ian's and Fang's sites... I don't know where this discussion is
going
>so that is all.
>
>-TurtleTek
>
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