Name for website

BennyGiebens

Luc, i see that the navision is backing off a little bit.
If you still are searching for a new name, why not NOLUG.NET (Navision On Line Users Groep) ???

I encounterd that name somewhere but i can't remember where, and i can't find any references anymore on the internet to it.

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Rgds
Benny Giebens

Dennis

NOLUG was the name used by Erik Ernst's www.navision.net site. Before it was a webpage it was a maillist. You might want to check with him before using that name.
You can e-mail me if you need his address.

Dennis

Erik_P._Ernst

Dear Navision Friends,

I actually talked to Luc Van Dyck about this topic some weeks ago.

As most of you know http://www.Navision.Net has not been functioning to the best the last two years. Ever since our old mailing list was shot down the site has been "under construction". The last thing we did was setting a new beta site up. But due do different problems with our remote access to the server (physically hosted at Navision Software) and not enough time to spend on the project by the guy who would do this site, nothing has really happend by now.

And now I'm at my limit of my patient. So I have talked to Luc Van Dyck about making this site to the official Navision Online User Groups site. It just need a few changes (actually just additional forums and areas) and we would have the almost perfect NOLUG site.

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Best regards,
Erik P. Ernst


[This message has been edited by Erik P. Ernst (edited 17-01-2000).]

Dennis

If you want to make this site the official NOLUG site, perhaps you can e-mail the users of the previous site, just to let them know you're back in business, and where they can find us. If you still have the addresses that is ofcourse.

Dennis

BennyGiebens

This would be a good solution i Think.

if you mail the people on the old mailinglist, please mention that port 38001 on there firewall(if they have one) needs to be open.

I took me a couple of days to figure this out !!

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Rgds
Benny Giebens

jp

I have not even been able to access the NOLUG web site for a couple of weeks. Is anyone else experiencing this problem?

I think this site is great, and would function well as a replacement for the Nolug site, no matter what the name is.

-jp

BennyGiebens

Same here for the navision.net.

I don't know what's happening but for the moment this is the only available meetingplace for navision users (and programmers) that I know iof that works/

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Rgds
Benny Giebens

Dennis

Reading last two messages, I think it will be clearer for all of us if we refer to www.navision.net as NOLUG (Yes they are the same <img border="0" title="" alt="" src="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif" />).

Dennis

jp

NOLUG is back.

-jp

BennyGiebens

It is back indeed.
Any idea why it was away for so long ???

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Rgds
Benny Giebens


[This message has been edited by BennyGiebens (edited 19-01-2000).]

Erik_P._Ernst

Why it was away? Sure I know. But I think I have to tell the full story about NOLUG and www.navision.net.

Back in the old days in 1995 I got my first ISP account with access to my own web pages. So I created a personal page with hobbies etc. a page on my home town (Middelfart in Denmark) and a page about Navision, which at that point of time had no presence on the Internet at all. The domain name www.navision.com was used by a company called "The Navigators" (funny if you know Navision's old name in Denmark) in California that had nothing to do with Navision.

At one point in late 1995 I talked to my local ISP (Openix in New Jersey) if they could host a mailing list. Because I had refered serveral customers to them, the guy in charge said yes.

So the web site, which name was changed to www.navision.net and the mailing list, grew and grew. And both the mailing list and the web site took a lot of time to update and maintain. Just the links page took 10 - 20 minutes a day. And the list maintainance took another 10 to 20 minutes a day. It doesn't sound like much, but if took a vaction the result was offen that the list went down. But I did it as long as I had the time.

After I returned to Denmark suddenly Openix stopped the list server in 1998 without any warning at all. And I could not contact them neither by phone or email.

So we needed a new ISP, but in order to build the next step (a site similar to this site) we needed a dedicated web server. So when I talked to Navision Software we made a deal. They would get the rights to the domain name navision.net (to prevent it from beeing misused), but they would host and pay our server.
So that we did.

The site one www.navision.net right now is only a temporary site that was intended only to run until we had the new site up and running. That was planned last summer, but due to a lot of problems and work, it's still not done. And although the basics work, it's not stable enough and there is still a lot of work on the other areas.

So I hope we can move it www.navision.net.

What I think we need to this site is:
- Ability to follow a tread or forum by email
- Ability to post (including updating and removing) job offers
- Ability to post (incl. update/remove) Navision links
- Online Chat

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Best regards,
Erik P. Ernst

Erik_P._Ernst

Since I've never gotten any response from Luc about him taking over http://www.navision.net , I've decided to continue with http://www.navision.net anyway.

So as of today the [url NAVISION ONLINE USER GROUP is back online and extensions are planned.

Best regards
Erik P. Ernst, moderator/webmaster
[url Navision]http://www.navision.net]Navision Online User Group[/url]

[This message has been edited by Erik P. Ernst (edited 01-02-2000).]

Darrell

new web site name ...
www.fin-exe.net

or ...
www.just-delete-the-zup-file.net

Darrell