VIM.ORG - Vim Organization

This page gives information about the current status of the domain "VIM.ORG".

Overview

Email | FTP | WWW
History | Credits | Others VIMs

Email

Everything about Email to vim.org should be explained on the page about mails

The following addresses at vim.org should be valid:

ADDRESS@VIM.ORG    TARGET ADDRESS

 addresses by function
 (target addresses can be changed when service is taken over someone else):

 function@vim.org      target address                   Name
 ================      ===============                  =================
 author                   bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 bugs                     bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 bugreport                bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 faq                       faq@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 *ftp*                     sec@42.org                   Stefan Zehl
 postmaster            leitner@fefe.de                  Felix von Leitner
 vimfaq                 guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 webmaster              guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 wish                   guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 wishlist               guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 www                    guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes

 name@vim.org          target address                   Name
 ============          ==========================       ====================
 bram                     bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 duperval              laurent@Grafnetix.COM            Laurent Duperval
 felix                 leitner@math.fu-berlin.de        Felix von Leitner
 guckes                 guckes@math.fu-berlin.de        Sven Guckes
 leitner               leitner@math.fu-berlin.de        Felix von Leitner
 laurent               laurent@Grafnetix.COM            Laurent Duperval
 mool                     bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 moolenaar                bram@vim.org                  Bram Moolenaar
 sec                       sec@42.org                   Stefan Zehl
 stefan                    sec@42.org                   Stefan Zehl
 sven                   guckes@vim.org                  Sven Guckes
 zehl                      sec@42.org                   Stefan Zehl

Unfortunately, syntax file maintainers won't get their own vim.org mail address. I tried, but the idea was turned down. Sorry!

Note to address harvesters: Don't send spam - or else!

vim.org - WWW mirrors

[011110] FAQ: Why can't you access www.vim.org as simply "vim.org"?
A: The "vim.org" is already taken for the CVS service. Yes, this *could* be changed, however, we'll leave it at that. Furthermore, enforcing www.vim.org as the name is better for web logs.

The site www.vim.org is just a mirror of the Vim Pages at http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/. The pages are mirrored using "webcopy" and are mirrored twice daily. If you need to look at a change that is very very recent (say, within the last 24 hours) then please look at the original site.

If you like to set up a mirror for www.vim.org then you are very welcome to do so. See the Vim HowTo on Mirroring www.vim.org for more info on this matter.

vim.org - Distribution, Download, FTP

The main distribution site for vim is

ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/
This site is hosted on the ftp server of the "NetherLands Unix User Group" (ftp.nluug.nl).

Vim is mirrored on many sites (see the distribution page).

FTP and WWW mirrors in other countries usually bear the name ftp.city.country.vim.org and www.XY.vim.org, respectively, where XY is the two letter code of that country.

Also, I will try to get all distribution sites to carry vim in /pub/vim. Let's see if this is feasible.

I am considering to make the helpfiles of the current version available for FTP as an archive by itself in HTML for browsing ie ftp://ftp.vim.org/html/vim.docs.html.tar.gz . Is anybody interested in this? Let me know! Send mail to guckes@vim.org !

vim.org - History

000819

vim.org is now hosted by gandi.net

whois vim.org

980625

Some more CNAMEs have been added for the ftp servers of vim.org. Check with "nslookup" if you like:

        $ nslookup
        server ns.vim.org
        ls -a vim.org

971017

We are currently naming the ftp mirrors...

970918

The pages on vim.org are now a mirror of the pages at Sven's place. No more redirection -> bookmarks go to vim.org. :-) It is intended that the pages on VI also get mirrored. So all info on VI is then on vim.org. Hopefully this will then become *the* reference site on VI on the Web. Send me the addresses on good VI info!

970915

Success!

VIM.ORG finally has come to life! :-)

$ whois vim.org
Vim.org - Vi IMproved (Sven Guckes) (VIM3-DOM)
   Pariser Str. 52
   Berlin, 10719
   de

   Domain Name: VIM.ORG

   Administrative Contact:
      Guckes, Sven  (SG3457)  guckes@VIM.ORG
      +49(177)7777796 (FAX) +49(30)8838884
   Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Zehl, Stefan  (SZ232)  sec@MUFFIN.ORG
      0177/2340515 (FAX) +49(89)3618023
   Billing Contact:
      Zehl, Stefan  (SZ232)  sec@MUFFIN.ORG
      0177/2340515 (FAX) +49(89)3618023

   Record last updated on 15-Sep-97.
   Record created on 15-Sep-97.
   Database last updated on 16-Sep-97 04:47:04 EDT.

   Domain servers in listed order:

   R2D2.MUSIN.DE                194.113.40.45
   EWOK.PI.MUSIN.DE             194.246.250.2

The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information
(Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's).
Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information.

970911

I am looking at the mails I have received about vim.org and I am preparing a mail to all. Please stay tuned!

970911

VIM.ORG has been registered at InterNIC.

vim.org - Credits

People who have helped and offered their help to me:

Stefan 'Sec' Zehl: The maintainer of the vim.org domain, especially the DNS entries for the hosts that carry the ftp and www mirrors.
Sirtaj Singh Kang: Creator of the script that converts Vim helpfiles into HTML.

People to add: ??? <zeus@tomserver.phys.ttu.edu> B.G. Mahesh <mahesh@mahesh.com> Bill Duncan <bduncan@beachnet.org> Brian Grossman <brian@SoftHome.net> Chia-liang Kao <clkao@tc.neto.net> Felipe Contreras Alcala <fhca@csi.UOttawa.CA> Frank Cusack <frank@fore.com> Hans-Joachim Gurt <gurt@nacamar.net> Jonathan Bradshaw <Jonathan@NrgUp.Com> Ken Weingold <hazmat@hellrot.org> Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@pointer.teuto.de> Linh D. Ngo <linh@vr1.com> Mark Constable <markc@motd.com> Mark Devlin <devlin@usa.net> Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Michael-John Turner <mjturner@icon.co.za> Mike Depot <mike@ici.ne> Philip Hallstrom <philip.hallstrom@sierra.com> Sam Trenholme <sam@samiam.org> Steinar Knutsen <sk@nvg.ntnu.no> Sudhakar Chandrasekharan<thaths@netscape.com> Tom Julien <tomj@orl.lmco.com> Wes A. Jones <wjones@fireblazer.com> Yiorgos Adamopoulos <Y.Adamopoulos@noc.ntua.gr> Dale Harris <rodmur@sampoerna.cisnet.net>

Other VIM organizations

The abbreviation "VIM" apparently is quite popular - several companies are using it. The result of a whois query on "vim" on 970911:

$ whois vim
Avila, Roy M. (RMA8)       vim@CYBERCOM.NET                 (617)773-1536
Chirife, Alejandro (AC294) vim@SHADOW.NET                    305-536-3520
Henry, Martin (MH1305)     vim@CYBERCOM.NET                 (617)878-7936
Idan, Tzvika (TI265)       vim@INTER.NET.IL +972-9-9599093 (FAX) +972-9-9599608
Mahadeva, Vimalan (VM577)  vim@UCLA.EDU       310 854-8220 (FAX) 310 652-9053
VIM (VDOMAIN2-DOM)                                                 VDOMAIN.COM
VIM (Verkaik Innovative Management) (VIM2-DOM)                         VIM.NET
VIM Industries (UKRAINEGIRLS-DOM)                             UKRAINEGIRLS.COM
VIM Studios (LOCALFINDER-DOM)                                  LOCALFINDER.COM
VIM Studios (NETTRACKS-DOM)                                      NETTRACKS.COM
VIM Studios (SECUREDTRANS-DOM)                                SECUREDTRANS.COM
VIM Technologies, INC. (VIMTECHNOLOGIES-DOM)               VIMTECHNOLOGIES.COM
VIM, Inc. (ONLINESALES-DOM)                                    ONLINESALES.COM
VIm Partners (VALUEINVESTMENT-DOM)                         VALUEINVESTMENT.COM
Vim Corp. (VIMC-DOM)                                                  VIMC.COM
Vim Gupta (VG12-ORG)            customers@DESIG.NET              0181 348 2247
Vim Studios (ADVERTISEIT-DOM)                                  ADVERTISEIT.COM
Vim Studios (MYVEGAS-DOM)                                          MYVEGAS.COM
Vim Studios (MOVIETHEATRES3-DOM)                             MOVIETHEATRES.COM
Vim Studios (VIMSTUDIOS-DOM)                                    VIMSTUDIOS.COM
Vim Studios (OUTTASITES-DOM)                                    OUTTASITES.COM

And last but not least one of my favourite Vim companies:

From a Biography of Oliver Hardy (a famous comedian):

"Oliver is known to have been in Jacksonville, Florida at least until the Vim Comedy Company stopped production in 1916."

No, Vi IMproved was not meant as a joke. ;-)

URL:         http://www.math.fu-berlin.de/~guckes/vim/orga.html
URL:         http://www.vim.org/orga.html (mirror)
Created:     Thu Sep 11 00:00:00 CET 1997

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Sven Guckes guckes@vim.org