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From: MICHAEL O'CONNOR<michael.o' >
Subject: Re: Goldfields closing
Date: Wed, 3 Dec 1997 08:25:01 +0200 (GMT)


In response to Steve's message below I would just like to say : "Maybe there
is APATHY" but in my humble opinion IGNORANCE reigns". I for one do not have
a clue what a BBS is. I use a computer without half the time understanding
what or why I am doing it. I get "unsubscribed" from lists like this one
without evere knowing why. I struggle to get through to my service provider
to send/receive messages and when I do I get cut off for no apparent reason.
Again I do not understand why. If I ask my service provider why I am told
that it is my computer. Maybe but then why if in frustration I try the same
service provider but go to the expense of going through Durban or
Johannesburg I do not have the problem? So Steve and Colyn why not try and
"educate" us as to what a BBS is all about and maybe we will jump at the
opportunity of supporting one.
As I mentioned once before "I cast a fly upon the water and caught a fish"
and now thanks to Johan all of us have a better understanding of the
computers in the Archives.
Keep well and kind regards
Mike
>
>Hi Conrod,
>
>Perhaps you might like to post this to your mailing list.
>
>When Godlfields closes, there will be no genealogy BBSs left in Johannesburg.
>Colyn Brookes runs one in Cape Town, and I run in Pretoria, and there is one
>still running in Durban, but all receive minimal support from South African
>genealogists.
>
>Colyn is still quite keen, but I gave up the unequal struggle some time ago. I
>continue to run the BBS for my own benefit. And it's there for anyone who wants
>to use it, but as Colyn says, apathy rules.
>

>Hi Steve
>
> SH> Sad news, folks!
>
> SH> The BBS from which I am posting this, Goldfields, is closing within
> SH> the next fortnight.
>
>
>Sorry to hear this Steve. Another bites the dust.
>
> SH> But then South African genealogists have never really supported
> SH> genealogical BBSs, in spite of many exhortations over the last eight
> SH> years. And with the lack of support, there is not much incentive for
> SH> the sysops to keep them going.
>
>
>I have met a couple of their local members, they don't support their own
>people all that well either!
>
>On the NCS Cape Town I have hundreds of Genealogy related text files
>including the full set of the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid, the UKMWIT
>several databases of really interesting information and the database I
>am currently working on which has 2,400 names already and I have lists
>of another 14,000 still to enter.
>
>The word APATHY always come to the front Steve, I spoke with a gentleman
>who is an Author of some 11 books a short while ago. He asked if I was
>a member of the GSSA, when I said no he became more helpful! What is
>going on? Why should we be behind the resxt of the world all the time?
>
>A short while ago you published a list of cemeteries in SA that have CD
>databases. I replied to the address you gave and received no response. I
>have since used the list to find the local cemeteries and do my own
>logging!
>
>APATHY
>
>Colyn
>
>
>
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> ! Origin: NCS Cape Town (Genealogy) RSA +27-21-930-2752 (5:7102/115)
>======================================================================
>
>Keep well,
>
>Steve Hayes
>E-mail:
> WWW: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7734
>
>
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>
Michael O'Connor
Orchid Grower and Genealogist
Researching the names O'Connor/Connor/Connors
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa

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