RE: One year with Ringlink

[Richard Lowe Internet Tips And Secrets <richlowe at pacbell.net>]

Gunnar, happy 1st to Ringlink. I thank you very sincerely for
creating Ringlink. I believe your work has salvaged the ring
concept from the doldrums created by Yahoo. Excellent job.
Richard Lowe
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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com
[mailto:owner-ringlinklist@1-host.com]On Behalf Of Warren V. LeMay
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 1:31 PM
To: list@ringlink.org
Subject: Re: [ringlinklist] One year with Ringlink
Happy birthday to Ringlink....and thanks to Gunnar and the crew.
Warren LeMay
2be1ask1.com/e-m@son web ring
Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> 
> Last year I got tired of WebRing.org's unwillingness to communicate with
> the users of their service, so I decided to create an alternative tool
> for webring management. At July 31, 2000, Ringlink 1.0 was released.
> 
> It's been a rather eventful year to the ring community since then. As
> regards Ringlink, the developers have patiently worked with improvements
> and enhancements, and we are soon ready to release Ringlink 2.0. The new
> version is internationalized, i.e. the whole program can be easily
> extended with other languages than English, and it will be possible to
> run it under Apache mod_perl to increase performance and reduce the
> server load.
> 
> One new feature in Ringlink 2.0 is the possibility to use the checker on
> inactive sites. To be honest, that feature was rather low on my personal
> priority list, but one Ringlink user, Pete Jordan (now a developer),
> thought otherwise and simply wrote the necessary code and provided it as
> a patch. That's what "open source" is about. :)
> 
> / Gunnar
> 
> Ringlink http://www.ringlink.org/
> "created by ringmasters for ringmasters"