Dragaera

Tor books Web site abandoned?

Wed Nov 13 12:38:00 PST 2002

Gametech wrote:
> David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>> "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.
>
My first thought is well so much for that theory and second I wonder if they
got paid with comestibles.