[DECtalk] my thoughts

[Shaun Everiss]

I will support you mr randel.
I still like themp3s myself, I would be sad if they went.
I also like weird and stupid files.
You are right to say the archive is almost dead though.
Still if you get loads of sites with stupid dectalk things you have, I would like them.
The mp3 productions add to the normal text ones.
I hope you have a nice holiday, sorry for being a rat.
At 10:54 p.m. 17/08/2005, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>I've had a cool summer so far (figuratively speaking).
>I spent a week in Brno (which is why, Shaun, Red dwarf isn't on the dot - 
>we have lives, you know).
>
>All this seriousness in the middle of my vacation is a bit too much for my 
>poor addled brain awash with sun and fun, so I'll keep this brief:
>
>DECtalk has been fun.  I've had a great time doing this stuff, listening 
>to the rest, asking questions.  But there comes a point where things run 
>out.
>Was it Andre who said that DECtalk is great when your sixteen and got 
>nothing to do in the summer? 'Cos that basically sums it up, it's a laugh 
>but hasn't got much of a viable future unless someone keeps the hosting of 
>it down.
>I was talking about this yesterday with Matthew and, like most of you, 
>figure the archive to be mostly Dead.  There are new files now and then, 
>but, by and large, nothing much happens.  Red Dwarf is the exception to 
>the rule (and even that has an audience of about 3 people - say 10 to be 
>optimistic).
>I'm enjoying it so will continue to the end of 8 - why not?  Even if the 
>archive goes down, you guys can listen to the texts (rarely it is I go for 
>an mp3) these days.
>I'll be sad to see it go if it does - but the wining, bitching, 
>complaining and arguing is just a pointless way not to solve the problem 
>because only a few people give a rats ass about this stuff don't they? 
>it's not commercially backed or anything, and therefore it's not 
>interesting to a vast majority of people.
>
>Personally, I'll use DECtalk to make wacky sounds if I need to, do stupid 
>things when I'm bored - that's the entire point of it for me.  I don't use 
>it as a day-to-day thing - if I did, it'd lose it's novelty.
>
>So anyway.  Donating doesn't seem to be reaching much of a peek - we have 
>mirrors, which is fortunate - and I will get the first rd ep of 6 out this 
>week I hope (I have exam results in tomorrow so I might get totally 
>hammered if I do well).
>But the one thing I can't do is take all this too seriously, as I said. 
>it's fun, it's comedy, it's a laugh.  Turning it into a powerplay for cash 
>and bandwidth is just something you do with no real practical result --  
>bit like the entire point of making the files in the first place, 
>surprisingly enough.
>
>
>
>Ciao,
>Sean R.
>
>
>If you are close enough to read this, I am close enough to slam
>on my brakes and sue you.
>
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