[E-Lang] Fwd: WebRing is Moving!

[Mark S. Miller]

Those of you in the "to:" line above have probably by now received the 
email quoted below, as you are the hosts of the other sites on our Capability 
Security WebRing http://nav.webring.yahoo.com/hub?ring=capabilitysecuri .  
You may have also noticed that the webring navigation bar, that bit of 
Javascript that the WebRing system insists we put on our page in order to be 
hooked up to the webring , is now broken.  Various other things seem broken 
as well, like our "profile" pages.  This seems to have been an atrociously 
managed transition, for things to already be broken on the day they announce 
the need to move!

This change of host, from yahoo to webring.com, will break any existing 
links to the current webring location, and underscores our vulnerability 
when we make use of free services.  (And, btw, thank you again, Steve Jenson, 
for having the foresight to avoid a similar situation with SourceForge for 
bug tracking.)  So, I am *not* inclined to take the path of least resistance 
and just move the ring to webring.com.

But I'm not sure what to do instead.  One possibility: Joerg's site 
http://www.zilium.de/joerg/capbib.html is already a survey of capability 
systems, and looks good to me.  We could drop the webring idea, replace our 
webring banner with stylized link to his site (perhaps a linked Granovetter 
icon http://www.erights.org/images/capsecure-ring.gif ), and help him 
improve his site over time.  Joerg, would you be willing to have your site 
serve such a role?

Reactions?  Any other suggestions?  Anyone?


>From: response@webring.org
>Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 09:38:06 -0700 (PDT)
>X-Authentication-Warning: wr13.yahoo.com: webring set sender to response@webring.org using -f
>Reply-To: response@webring.org
>Subject: WebRing is Moving!
>X-Rcpt-To: markm@erights.org
>
>Dear WebRing Member,
>
>That's right, WebRing is no longer a part of the Yahoo! network.
>
>What this means to you:  You MUST request to have your existing ring and/or 
>site data transferred to the new WebRing servers.
>
>Yahoo!'s "Terms of Service" does not allow member information to be 
>transferred to another entity, including WebRing.  If you would like to keep 
>your WebRing you must request to have it transferred by following the link 
>below.
>
><a href="http://edit.webring.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/migrate">Transfer my existing 
>ring information to the new WebRing servers</a>
>
>Please note, your ring/site WILL NOT be transferred automatically, you must 
>follow the link above and complete the transfer process.  Rings ans Sites 
>not transferred will be lost once the migration period is over.
>
>Questions can be best answered by visiting the new <a 
>href="http://dir.webring.com/rw">WebRing site</a>.
>
>Thanks


        Cheers,
        --MarkM