Becoming a Member of Grex

Jun 22 23:00 UTC 2003

  ________                       is run cooperatively by a not-for-profit
 /  _____/______   ____ ___  ___ corporation known as Cyberspace
/   \  __\_  __ \_/ __ \\  \/  / Communications, Inc. and is totally funded
\    \_\  \  | \/\  ___/ >    <  by members of the corporation.  As the
 \______  /__|    \___  >__/\_ \ treasurer of Cyberspace Communications,
        \/            \/      \/ I'd like to say a few words about why you
should become a member of Grex.  Becoming a member...

...helps keep Grex alive.  Your donation helps us pay our phone
   bills, electric bills, rent, and internet connection costs.  These
   bills currently run about $420/month.  Besides, dead Grexes smell
   even worse than road kills.

...will help Grex expand so that it can offer even more services
   to its community (that's you!)

...gives you the right to vote in Grex elections.  If you don't
   like the way things are being run here, you can vote the bums
   out, or you can call a vote on an issue you think is important.

...allows you to use our Internet link and do fancy stuff like
   telnet, ftp, irc, and more.

...wins you the undying gratitude of all who love Grex.

...will make you feel like a really great person (just a little poorer).

Membership costs US$6 per month or US$60 per year (cheap!).  Dues are 100%
tax deductable.  If you pay for at least three consecutive months, you
become a voting member, and if you pay for 3 months all at once you may
request a copy of the 32-page Grex handbook, "Wizard in Training", and
I'll send it to you.

Institutions are also welcome to become members of Grex, and several have.
The only restriction is that only human members may vote.

To become a Grex member, send cash, checks, or money orders to:

Cyberspace Communications, Inc.
P.O. Box 4432
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-4432

Or you can send money with a credit card over the net using Paypal.  See
/---------------------------------------\
| http://www.cyberspace.org/member.html |
\---------------------------------------/
for more information.

(If you send cash or a money order, or use Paypal, please send a photocopy
of a current ID, such as a driver's license or student ID card.  If you
send a personal check with your name pre-printed on it, that's good enough
ID for us.)

Feel free to send me mail if you have questions about membership, or see
the membership FAQ at
/---------------------------------------\
| http://www.cyberspace.org/memfaq.html |
\---------------------------------------/

THANKS FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

response 2 of 34:

Jun 23 01:58 UTC 2003

hehe, I've got to make time to see how many times this has been asked and how
many fun ways this could be answered.

But for now, I'll give you the short polite answer:

Sorry, no.

response 4 of 34:

Jun 23 03:08 UTC 2003

Your latest victim?

response 6 of 34:

Jun 23 03:22 UTC 2003

kip treats everyone like they have legitimate goals.

response 8 of 34:

Jun 23 04:05 UTC 2003

Ooh, snazzy graphics in #0.  I like.

response 10 of 34:

Jun 23 16:39 UTC 2003

Re #8: Back when Scott was in his phase of making his text look weird, I
 wrote a little program to put boxes around things and do drop capitals in
  figlet.  It also allows one to specify a function for the left margin in
   terms of the line number, so that, for instance, the margin can zigzag or
  look like a sine wave.  I haven't used that as much as I should have, I
 think.

The list of members is available by typing "members | fmt".  There are
currently two institutional members, mnac and seeker.

response 12 of 34:

Jun 23 18:42 UTC 2003

fmt makes it so multiple names appear on a line.  (Otherwise it's one name
per line.)

response 14 of 34:

Jun 29 14:57 UTC 2003

What are you trying to do? I think if you type "help commands" at Ok: 
prompt, it will give you a list of commands. I could be wrong though, I 
have been using the web interface for so long, I barely remember. 

response 16 of 34:

Jul 1 22:33 UTC 2003

Why?

response 18 of 34:

Jul 8 02:17 UTC 2003

Agora is 99.1% boredom

response 20 of 34:

Jul 11 13:55 UTC 2003

Re #16: The reason to thank people for supporting Grex is that without their
support, Grex would cease to exist.  So if you feel you benefit from Grex,
then you have the members to thank for making that possible.

Please welcome Georg Koch (gorg) for becoming a member of Grex!  And while
you're at it, thank bookie for renewing his membership.  Thanks!

response 22 of 34:

Sep 11 12:52 UTC 2003

Got an email this morning that a good friend in Wisconsin had a pretty nasty
car crash, and is it the hospital.

response 24 of 34:

Sep 12 05:05 UTC 2003

How often does grex check it's P.O Box?