Klonk Wed, 5 Apr 2006 01:07:58 -0500 veschprigt mroktar Jon Kamm <kammagic@comcast.net> [re: [Yello] uControl]:
All I want is to provide Yello content and info to everyone. This becomes a problem, however, when you decide to issue said content in non-universally viewable formats. I am not the only one who has observed that your profferings, though kindly shared, have been mortally flawed in one way or another. If, as I have argued in the past repeatedly, you truly wanted to provide Yello content and info to EVERYONE, you would then be sure to use a format that EVERYONE CAN USE. You don't. You continue to issue content that is bleeding edge proprietary to your platform, to wit: H-264 mp4/quicktime. Where a universally viewable format exists [XviD or even DivX are undeniably the reigning kings of transmissible and useful content. Go to any BT site. Count the number of .MOVs vs. the number of xvid/divx AVIs], and where you refuse to use it, it calls into question the nature of the desires that drive your alleged benevolence.
When I first got on the internet looking for Yello stuff, there was very little available.
Fractionalisation seems like a problem to me. Do you really think it's best? Already you've created the forum, which does provide the availability of binary content. That plus this list plus the already extant Yahoo! list plus the already extant usenet group[s] seems already like more than enough. Why fork the data further? I question seriously whether you are impartial enough to act as moderator. That's where this list is excellent. Anyone can say anything they want. If it is objectionable, it is handled in-list. Your statment "11. a moderator that "IS" available." is very telling to me. You've started the list on Google Groups. Suddenly YOU are the moderator. Are the flippant responses from both you and your lap dog to my expressed concerns to be an indication of your moderating style? Also, I erred... somewhere I got the idea that you had said "Yahoo! Groups" instead of "Google Groups". Yahoo! Groups = super annoying. Google Groups = redundant to USENET. I believe one response within this thread came as an indicaton that access to Yahoo! Groups was forbidden by someone's Proxy server.
I do think you have a lot to offer. .... Wouldn't it be better used in a positive way? Yes. I agree. That failing has been mine. I have been conscious of it, which only exacerbates the error. I apologize for the harsh nature of my responses to many of your posts. I still disagree with you - that's unchanged, as well as the fact that I just don't like you - or at least the you that is presented here. But that's no excuse for the manner in which I have comported myself, or for the tone my posts have carried. And so, again, I apologize.
--gcr