Announcement: I Will No Longer Maintain My Web Site
Tony Lammens
This will also be found on my site
http://www.sofcom.com.au/TV/lammens/
from early Sunday, 1 June 1997, Australian EST.
By Tony Lammens, 31 May 1997
Folks, I've decided to no longer maintain my TV-related
Internet site. This basically means that all the information
in the /lammens directory of Sofcom will fall into disrepair.
For this, I apologize.
http://www.sofcom.com.au/TV/lammens/
Basically, I've decided that I've been devoting far too much
time to this hobby, into which I have poured probably 10 to 20
hours per week for nearly two years. I've developed what is
probably one of the world's largest single-person part-time
non-profit hobby sites of any sort, with over 8Mb of *htm
documents, and tens of megabytes of pictures. I think I want
to move on from this, and do something else.
Maintaining this site has become more of a chore than a pleasure,
and I've noticed my irritability levels increase over the last six
months or so. I lack the oomph to continue. I need a break. It's all
my fault really - I keep on seeking to expand and find new areas
of interest, while at the same time always trying to maintain
the original stuff.
I began these pages nearly two years ago, at a time when, by
today's standards, there was little information available on
the Internet. SBS was the only Australian TV network to have a site,
and there were no TV-based schedules available for Australia
or the United States.
I filled a void by supplying a lot of information that could not
be found elsewhere on the Internet, and now that void has more than
adequately filled by others.
I think it's time I left, before I do more harm to myself by staying
here. I will no longer be maintaining these web pages; however I
will not disappear altogether. I will still post items to aus.tv
if I know answers to people's questions, I will still read and
respond to email, and I will still make myself useful where I
feel like it.
I'd like to thank all those people who have helped me in the past
two years by providing information and support. Not to downplay all
the other hundreds of people who have pointed-out errors from
time to time, but people I'd particularly like to thank include
the folks at Sofcom, Vidiot, Rhys Threlfall, Garth Franklin,
Paulius Stepanas, and any others I've forgotten. Thank you all.
This site has been maintained by Sofcom in return for my daily
TV Highlights pages. As I will no longer be providing TV Highlights
pages, it would not be fair on Sofcom for them to provide the
disk space for my multi-megabyte site into the future. Therefore,
I have decided to move as much as I can back to where it all started, at
http://connexus.apana.org.au/~lammens/. Because my
allowable disk space at Connexus is 3MB, this is far less than
the amount of material (probably around 50MB) that I actually have.
Therefore, most of the *htm documents, but none of the
pictures, will be making the transition. The books and reviews
sections in particular will go. I may try to get a Geocities home page
to park some of the stuff - in particular, I am interested in retaining
the Nowhere Man site, with its pictures, intact.
Accordingly, please feel free to download all the pictures and
information you can from these pages over the next few weeks
before everything is deleted. Of particular note are the full-screen Star
Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine pictures and smaller
thumbnails I have made available. For Deep Space Nine, these cover
the period from 63: Visionary through to 107: The
Ascent; and for Voyager: from 17: The 37s through to 54: Macrocosm.
I also have thumbnail pictures for most Nowhere Man episodes.
Feel free to download as much as you want or can. Please note that
these pictures are copyright (c) the Viacom corporation, and were
digitised by Vidiot. You really need to email him to get
permission first if you wish to upload these onto your own site;
additionally, Viacom may not like you putting these images on sites
if you are in the United States.
Additionally, if you have some spare time and wish to maintain my
pages on your own site, or some portion of them (eg, just Nowhere Man,
or The Simpsons, or Murder One, or the Star Trek confirmed info page),
feel free to download the *htm from the Sofcom site, and do with it as you
please, or incorporate it into your own site. Please, however, do not
make a profit from what I've written, and continue to acknowledge me.
I remain the intellectual property holder of this information.
Where do you go if you want this sort of information now I'm gone? The
good news is most of the information I provided was from elsewhere on
the Internet. Check-out the links on the individual
program pages, and also on the TV Links page. These links go to the
pages I've found most useful.
The Ch 9 info isn't coming from Ch 9 anymore - despite their assurances
that I'm on the mailing list, I haven't received any info for four weeks.
The conversion over to the Connexus site will take some time. Please
bear with me - I will try to salvage as much as possible.
As I say, I will not disappear. I will still be here. As Kosh might
say - I will always be here. I may return to web publishing, perhaps
in a different form, some time in the future. Maybe movies.
Maybe TV again. Who knows.
Goodbye, so long, and thanks for all the fish.
TONY LAMMENS.
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TONY LAMMENS; Melbourne, Australia; lam...@connexus.apana.org.au
http://www.sofcom.com.au/TV/lammens/
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Ian J. Ball
[Reply posted and E-mailed.]
In article <3390DF...@connexus.apana.org.au>, Tony Lammens
<lam...@connexus.apana.org.au> wrote:
> This will also be found on my site
> http://www.sofcom.com.au/TV/lammens/
> from early Sunday, 1 June 1997, Australian EST.
>
> By Tony Lammens, 31 May 1997
>
> Folks, I've decided to no longer maintain my TV-related
> Internet site. This basically means that all the information
> in the /lammens directory of Sofcom will fall into disrepair.
> For this, I apologize.
> http://www.sofcom.com.au/TV/lammens/
>
> Basically, I've decided that I've been devoting far too much
> time to this hobby, into which I have poured probably 10 to 20
> hours per week for nearly two years. I've developed what is
> probably one of the world's largest single-person part-time
> non-profit hobby sites of any sort, with over 8Mb of *htm
> documents, and tens of megabytes of pictures. I think I want
> to move on from this, and do something else.
Well, Tony, I can't say I'm surprised, though I am disappointed. :(
But I know what kind of work is involved in keeping your site up. Even my
site, which is rather modest in its aims compared to your site, takes up a
fair amount of my time. I can just imagine what is involved in keeping up
your site.
Your site provided a valuable servive to many of us in the net community
devoted to TV.
Still, I wish you the best, and I hope you continue to frequent
rec.arts.tv, in addition to aus.tv.
Good luck, and thanks again.
Ian
P.S. Unless you tell me otherwise, I shall remove your site from the
rec.arts.tv FAQ.
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