[BlueOnyx:12757] Re: Uncool email

[Jon McCauley]

On 4/3/2013 1:12 AM, Ralf Quint wrote:
> At 06:08 PM 4/2/2013, Jon McCauley wrote:
>
>> > I signed up with the BlueOnyx list after I did not even get a signup
>> > response from the BlueQuartz list. Dumped them quickly, as this here
>> > is a much nicer and most off all, more active list.
>> >
>> > Never was on the Cobalt lists, just used to use a few of those boxes
>> > "back in the days", still have a RaQ4 and a Qube 3 sitting in the
>> > closet, no too much that you can actually do with them beside making
>> > your rack look cool... <LOL>
>> the list went from Cobalt > BlueQuartz > BlueOnyx ( main list now )
>
> Are you sure? SourceForge still lists them as separate/unrelated 
> mailing lists on BlueQuartz SourceForge's project web site. Just no 
> apparent activity since 2007.
> Only when I did not get any response from the mailing list signup at 
> BlueQuartz (their Bluequartz.org domain seems also to be down by now), 
> looking for help on a couple issues I had with the BlueQuartz 
> download/install I did back then, I stumbled upon BlueOnyx. It seemed 
> that our Japanese friends who were running (sounds like an oxymoron 
> now) BlueQuartz didn't like gaijins...
>
> Ralf

Ralf,
Quick trip down memory lane

Cobalt, sold to Sun aka SunCobalt, then Sun EOL the code, that made a 
fork to BQ,  since then BO ( thx to People like Taco, Micheal, Brian, 
Hiso....and many to list ( hahah Zeffy ;}}}) JstKdng

thats where we are now ;))

Best Regards, Jon McCauley