Re: New Commodore Online Web Portal!

>I object to paying for your website hosting when essentially all you're doing is
>providing a centralized set of links to other sites (of which my site
>would be a potential link) when I'm already paying my own hosting
>costs.

Hmm... First, this is not a centralized set of links...

>What you propose to do is easily accomplished for free by a Favorites
>or Bookmarks folder on my local computer.... or I can add them to my
>personalized Google homepage for when I travel and don't take my
>computer with me. (I think Yahoo offers a similar service on their
>my.yahoo.com page.)

No, what I propose is not easily accomplished for free using your
Favorites either, or Yahoo, or Google. But, had you bothered to get a
login and sign on and see for yourself what can be accomplished, then
there would be no need for you to make assumptions and spread your
opinion on something you have absolutely no clue about.

>There's also the "centralized forum login" (my quotes) issue. How can
>you log me into another site's forum automatically without storing my
>username and password for each site? My web browser already offers to
>store usernames and passwords for me, so that feature would be
>redundant as well.

Single sign-on is nothing at all like your browsers username and
password storage feature. Yes, your login information is stored in
encrypted fashion (128-bit SHA1, for example) in the database. You are
not presented with login pages or the like, however, except for the
first time you login to something (that we have SSO set-up for), after
that you'll never see a login screen for any of the websites running
under the portal that we have SSO set-up for. So, again, you're
comparing apples to oranges.

>I'm sorry, but I don't see anything that's worth a donation, let alone
>a subscription.

Maybe if you decided to actually login to my system and have a look at
what can be done with my few brief examples you would not have to be
sorry for expressing an opinion about something you're obviously not
well informed about? Just a thought.

>The only thing you could do, in my opinion, that would
>be worth my paying for would be to become a mini-Google by caching the
>other websites' pages and hosting them yourself, and also adding search
>capability to index the content of those pages.

Again, for someone who hasn't seen what I'm doing, you sure are full of
opinions.

>But keep in mind that
>you'll need permission from all these Commodore websites that you'd
>need to cache in order to be useful, otherwise you're violating
>Maurice's copyright, my copyright, Bo's copyright, Kim's copyright, etc
>etc.

Actually, I don't. There is no law that says I cannot proxy your
content through another medium so long as I do not modify the content
of your sites. This aside, I'm not saying that I do not want the
permission of the site owners, and I in fact threw a few sites up there
simply to get some opinions from people once they logged in and had an
understanding of what I am doing but implied that I would take them off
if anyone has a problem with it - and the same holds true now. In fact,
I'm not adding any more content to the portal until either clients as
for it or site owners decide it is in their best interest to jump
onboard. I think this clearly indicates that I'm more than open to the
idea that some poeple may not want their content proxied, wouldn't you
agree?

And finally, your two cents are meaningless without having any
knowledge to back up your opinions - how in the world can you express
an opinion about something you don't even understand? Fear not,
James... I will not bother proxying your content through the website
without your permission - which at this point in the game, I don't
think your website will ever be proxied.

There are my two cents.

.

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