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Tor books Web site abandoned?

David Dyer-Bennet dd-b at dd-b.net
Wed Nov 13 09:35:32 PST 2002

"Gametech" <voltronalpha at hotmail.com> writes:

> Karin Bassett wrote:
> > --- Claire Rojstaczer <ambyrglow at softhome.net> wrote:
> >>> David Dyer-Bennet writes:
> >>>   "Peter H. Granzeau" <pgranzeau at cox.net> writes:
> >>>   > Does anyone know why Tor has seemingly abandoned their Web
> >>> site?  I   > notice the last time anyone seems to have
> >> maintained it was in
> >>>   > mid-summer; the publishing schedule ends in August, 2002 (three
> >>> months   > ago).
> >>>   I think it comes down to "because it's a low-priority job for
> >>> people   (pnh mostly I think) with many other
> >> responsibilities".
> >>>
> >>> They could probably hire a teenager once a month to do updates and
> >>> pay him in pizza...
> >>>
> >>> rone
> >>
> >> Or chocolate.  Chocolate is good.  I'd probably do
> >> it for chocolate. . . .
> >
> > I'll do it for chocolate, how much are we talking
> > here?
> > (I'll do a lot for dark chocolate.)

> I was wondering why I've found only a few contracts lately, everyone in my
> field is willing to 'work for food' Hmph There I go again thinking people
> get paid to do web work. Seriously though If I had to make a guess I'd say
> whomever it is who usually would take care of web things doesn't do that
> work anymore, hasn't thought about it in a really long time, or a
> combination of both. Sometimes when a employee leaves a company they take
> with them the knowledge of how to access the companies webserver which is
> more often than not 'out of house'

It says in the FAQ who the people are (Patrick and Teresa), and
they're still there.  And the schedule got updated recently, and now
stretches out into the future (up through August 2003 I believe)
again. 
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