[Coco] Hex Star... here we go again.

[Roger Taylor]

Hex,
Another thing I can relate to with your case is when I worked very 
hard for years to contact CoCo web site authors in request for color 
banners to put on my own site.  After several years I had aquired a 
great deal of awesome looking banners.  You could tell these guys 
worked hard creating them.  Even the dimensions were made up my be to 
be ideal at the time.  Years later I came across a CoCo site that had 
just grabbed most of these banenrs from my site and posted them on 
his own site.  I just sat there staring at his screen asking myself, 
"what is this guy doing?"  :)  Then i asked myself, what have *I* 
borrowed from other places on the web without asking?  So instead of 
getting all bent out of shape I decided to wait longer to see just 
how far he was going to take it.  More banners kept appearing, but 
then some unique banners appeared that were not created for me, yet 
they were the same dimensions.  :)  So what he have here is the 
spreading of good ideas, so what could I do?  :)  So long as he 
didn't try to clone my site, I guess that one little page with some 
banners on it wouldn't upset me or anybody else, so I left it alone, 
even today.  I guess some people here have the same philosophy about 
your file hording and sharing, but some are worried about their own 
works being caught in the mix, or they might be worried that the idea 
of doing this is not good taste, etc.  Who knows.  But the fact 
remains that there are already established archives from trusted distributors.

My suggestion is to place your requests on a web site and work hard 
to push that web site without sp*m or intrusion, and if the idea 
works then it works.  If it doesn't work, then it probably never 
would have.  But it takes TIME.  Sometimes it takes a LOT of time to 
get people to accept your idea or not, and even then some will never 
give it the time of day, for their own reasons.  That's perfectly 
ok.  You can't win them all, and you won't.  Nobody does that.  So if 
you end up getting zero or little acceptance of your idea here on 
this list, or end up getting the popular vote one day, just let 
nature take its course and know when to move out of the way of turbulence.

This reminds me of a guy a few years ago, can't remember his name, 
who got mad at the entire world one day and appeared to have a 
nervous breakdown right here on the list, and he posted his notice 
that he was leaving forever, and stopped his CoCo projects as 
well.  I'm not sure what caused this but I think there were a few 
fueds taking place about politics that he was involved in.  I think 
what we're seeing here is kinda like CoCo politics, or online 
community politics.  :)  Maybe not.  I'm just rambling anyway.


-- 
Roger Taylor