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- From: hmm@gustav (Hans-Martin Mosner)
- Subject: Re: [**] http://www.eiffel.com awarded 4-star rating by Magellan
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- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 09:55:37 GMT
-
- Bertrand Meyer (bertrand@eiffel.com) wrote:
- : Here is for a bit of boasting:
-
- : We just received notification that our Web site
-
- : http://www.eiffel.com
- : The Home page for Object-Oriented Technology,
- : TOOLS conferences and Eiffel
-
- : has been awarded a 4-star rating by the folks at Magellan
- : (http://www.mckinley.com), whose browser is based on a system
- : of rated browser, somewhat like a Michelin guide to the Web.
- : 4-star is the highest.
-
- Congratulations, but my own experience with the Magellan 4 star
- rating indicates that it should be taken with a grain of salt.
- I received a 4-star rating for an information service that I maintained
- out of private interest (nothing object-oriented) but discontinued
- with the beginning of 1996 because of lack of spare time.
- The rating was awarded just 1 or 2 days ago, 3 weeks after the welcome page
- was finally modified to read 'This service is being discontinued'.
- The review also favorously mentioned a search engine that I built for this service,
- but this search engine has been dysfunctional since November last year.
-
- Probably I'm a bit picky, but I think that Web ratings should not only
- consider content and form, but availability, too.
-
- --
- +--- Hans-Martin Mosner -------- Senior Smalltalk Guru ---+
- | These opinions are entirely ficticious. Any similarity |
- | to real opinions is purely coincidental and unintended. |
- +--- <hmm@heeg.de> ------ URL:http://www.heeg.de/~hmm/ ---+
-