Hi Bernie!
First off, might I suggest that we transfer our discussion of your questions/issues with QT/QTDR to
Richard Seltzer's "Business on the web" topic, which is (a) where we "met" and also (b) a "vanilla Topic" rather than a QTDR. If we conduct our "conversation" there, what we say will be easier to follow (imho) rather than built atop a single paragraph in the demo-doc QTDR. Hope this is OK by you.
I have no problems seeing your "Thought Provoking Action" doc at
http://www.quicktopic.com/10/D/yykSmrnVa9Emx.html . It looks (and reads!) good. I just Subscribed to that QTDR, put in a couple of test comments, and that all works fine. I don't exactly follow the sequence of events you described ("after the upload, I had exited,") but I don't think it's a cause for concern. Storage costs on the QT server are covered by QT's author, Steve Yost. Yes, there might be an "orphaned version" of your uploaded doc up there somewheres, but it's virtually impossible that it would be found randomly. And any successful upload has always resulted in a useable URL, so if you don't see one, it probably means that there's only
one working QTDR up there, which is the one I commented on.
Say Bernie, there's a guy you should meet (and maybe invite into your "Thought Provoking Actions" QTDR). His name's Seth Itzkan. He and I worked for BBN (Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc., the birthplace of the internet) though at different times. We both belong to the 'xbbn' distro list. He's also a self-styled futurist and I enjoy his writings (which he regularly flags to the xbbn email-list). He recently distributed a pointer to his latest imho excellent and moving essay, "Visionary Vermont," which also deals with post-Sept-11
th issues. I won't redistribute the pointer; that's his to do of course. But his email is sitzkan@planet-tech.com .
If there's anything more I can do by way of coaching in the whys and wherefores of QT/QTDR, I will be happy to do so (modulo available time; gimme a day or so:-) -- and I hope to see ya over in
Richard Seltzer's "Business on the web" topic!
(I'll repost this same text there, for continuity's sake)
