From: Christian Lheureux <[log in to unmask]>
To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: RE: 3kworld.com - opinions
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 04:18:11 +0200
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Same impression for me. I chose New Territories, assuming that France is a
New Territory as far as the Internet is concerned. Gee, after all, I got
online only 4 years ago !

Christian

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De:   Mark Wilkinson [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Date: mardi 17 aout 1999 18:25
> A:    [log in to unmask]
> Objet:        Re: 3kworld.com - opinions
>
> The site looks pretty good except that on the join-up form, you are
*forced* to
> choose a US State to live in. I chose Alabama even though I live in
London,
> England. I do hope Alabama is a nice place <g>
>
> Seriously though, I'm a little disappointed that the site is hosted on an
NT box
> with IIS/ASP. It would have been nice and very appropriate to host the
site on
> an HP3000 with Apache (and the MPE/iX port of perl for the scripting
stuff). It
> would really show everyone that the HP3000 can do all the things claimed
of it
> with all this e-services blurb that HP is putting out at the moment.
(can't
> it?)...
>
> I found the "sponsors" of the site - Client Systems LLC of Denver
Colorado. The
> site advertises itself as "the first of a new generation of Internet
> e-services". Looking at the site, this doesn't quite ring true IMHO. It
seems to
> be just like any other site - Interex.org for example; with Service
Directories,
> message boards and chat rooms. I can't see anything particularly
innovative or
> new about the concept that would justify the "new generation" tag. I
think we've
> probably got these things already on other sites but it's nice to see
someone
> putting it all together in one place.
>
> Just my 0.01 pence worth.
>
> Mark W.
> SPE.
>
> PS. I think they should remove the "3kworld admin superuser" link from
the main
> page though. That's just *asking* for some teenage hacker to have a go
<g>.  And
> the "3kworld Home Page" link is duplicated on that page too...
>
>
>
>
>
> Jeff Keepers <[log in to unmask]> on 17/08/99 14:11:54
>
> Please respond to [log in to unmask]
>
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> cc:    (bcc: Mark Wilkinson/UK/EU/SPE)
> Subject:  3kworld.com - opinions
>
>
>
>
> Has anyone checked out the 3kworld site?  I just finished looking and was
> curious what other people thought.
>
> Jeff Keepers
> 3M Valley, NE