[E-Lang] Fwd: WebRing is Moving!

[Dean Tribble]

The site needs a dedicated domain rather than a page within some other 
site.  I will put up a permanent server machine in the next month for doing 
that sort of thing (perhaps with an E server), but would perfectly happy if 
someone else did that.  Suggestions?

At 10:39 AM 10/15/01 -0700, Mark S. Miller wrote:
>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?