Proposal to restart & refocus the Internet/Network conference

Jun 5 16:43 UTC 2001

In coop conference item 6 (item:coop,6) I have entered a proposal to 
archive this current Internet conference (presumably as "Internet1"),
and to restart and refocus this conference.
 
Discussions of what the general public can do with the Internet 
-- especially what could be done in the 1990s -- have become of 
historic interest.  I want to start a nuts-and-bolts conference
for discussions of how to make various pieces of the network 
operate.  My hope is that we can pick a little bit of the brains 
of people who work on network issues professionally, and offer 
a lifeline to people who have been called upon to make networking 
work (either at work or at home) and who are scrambling for resources.
 
I propose that the conference have a new alias as the Network cf, 
so that either "bbs internet" or "bbs network" would get here.
I propose to delete Chris Bartlett (bartlett) as fw, since his account
is reaped, and also to delete ecy, who !finger says hasn't logged on 
since December.  I nominate myself to be co-fw with Jeff Kaplan,
current FW.

response 2 of 11:

Jun 6 00:18 UTC 2001

Thanks for the email.  I certainly haven't done nearly enough to be a FW
so removing me is a good idea.  If the cf has been quiet, and if what people
originally talked about isn't germane any longer, could the potential topics
be handled in extant cf without starting a new one?

response 4 of 11:

Jun 6 02:14 UTC 2001

Ann Arbor conferencing theory holds that eventually a large mass of dead
items overwhelms newcomers to any conference.  This is why the general 
conferences are restarted regularly.   I think that has happened to 
this conference.
 
((In the other conference I host, music, I have proposed a restart several 
times, and each time the users shout me down.  However, music is one of the 
more active specialty conferences, so I haven't felt that I need to push
the issue.))
 
Note that nothing in this conference will be destroyed; it will all remain
available as "internet1" or "oldinternet" for as long as Grex lasts,
most likely.
 
And I certainly have no reason to sweep ecy out as FW if he'd like to 
stick around.  (Hi, nice to meet you!)

response 6 of 11:

Jun 8 05:17 UTC 2001

OK, I'm busy this week, I'll talk to Jeff about my thoughts on next week's
Grexwalk, I expect.

response 8 of 11:

Jun 10 05:44 UTC 2001

No, that was "this week's" walk.  :/
I'm tied up until Thursday June 14 at the earliest.

response 10 of 11:

Jun 26 05:24 UTC 2001

I'm sorry, life is overwhelming right now and I have no time to work 
on this for another week or two.