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aruba
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response 10 of 64:
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Jan 8 15:29 UTC 2004 |
I'm sad too.
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gull
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response 11 of 64:
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Jan 8 16:01 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:9: I don't think it's all their fault. Valerie said earlier
that part of the reason she decided to risk killing her own item is that
she no longer cared that much about keeping her staff position. I think
she was just plain burned out on it.
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jp2
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response 12 of 64:
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Jan 8 16:03 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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cross
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response 13 of 64:
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Jan 8 16:32 UTC 2004 |
It does suck that Valerie has decided to leave grex entirely.
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naftee
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response 14 of 64:
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Jan 8 16:38 UTC 2004 |
So sad.
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krj
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response 15 of 64:
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Jan 8 17:17 UTC 2004 |
Metaphor: it's like going to the Habitat for Humanity house that you
were helping to build and pulling out the nails you pounded in.
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albaugh
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response 16 of 64:
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Jan 8 17:27 UTC 2004 |
I am sad that valerie felt that she had to / wanted to leave grex, in
apparently every manner. I know that I have gotten help from her in the past,
as I am sure that others have, and that resource will be missed by all.
And I have to think that deep down, somewhere, valerie is very upset that she
has had to give up grex.
That being said, even though it is her right to scribble everything that she
ever entered, and it is her right not to care what bad effect that will have
on grex, I find that blanket scribble to have been a somewhat childish act.
Especially in fundamentally technical conferences such as info and web.
I think she could have departed with a bit more grace. However, it was her
right to leave in any manner she wished.
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cross
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response 17 of 64:
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Jan 8 18:12 UTC 2004 |
And the garage conference, that was a real loss.
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mta
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response 18 of 64:
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Jan 8 19:06 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:11: I think the reason she was burned out is pretty
self-evident.
Still, it is sad. The end of an era.
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richard
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response 19 of 64:
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Jan 8 19:29 UTC 2004 |
I think valerie may be overreacting to that parody item on mnet. that item
parodied her baby diary. now maybe she thinks that every thing she ever
posted is ripe for parody so she has to remove them all. If so, it seems like
a huge overreaction.
Valerie is one of Grex's founders, and I'm sure Grex would be a different,
lesser, place today had it not had her participation as board and staff
member in its early years. I mean who's been a bigger fan and supporter of
Grex over the years than she has?
Which makes her leaving so publicly, so completely all the more sad and
mystifying. When you leave that publicly, its like slapping this place in
the face. Like maybe she's hoping other people will follow her example and
abandon the Grex. She could have left quietly, not even told anyone, but
she didn't. She left publicly. She wanted people to know she was
leaving. That implies she's angry and has an agenda. Does she not like
what Grex has become? Does she wish it was still just a local dialup bbs
for the Ann Arbor community?
Or is Valerie now saying that she thinks Grex has failed in its purpose,
that Grex can no longer be what she wanted it to be?
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aruba
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response 20 of 64:
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Jan 8 19:42 UTC 2004 |
I doubt Grex would exist at all if it weren't for Valerie. I know I
wouldn't be here.
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gull
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response 21 of 64:
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Jan 8 20:06 UTC 2004 |
Re resp:19: I don't know. Personally, if Grex continues on the current
path towards allowing users to remove other users' writings that they
disagree with, I will have considered it a failure.
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cross
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response 22 of 64:
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Jan 8 20:23 UTC 2004 |
As will I.
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jp2
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response 23 of 64:
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Jan 8 21:01 UTC 2004 |
This response has been erased.
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davel
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response 24 of 64:
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Jan 8 22:13 UTC 2004 |
What cmcgee said. <SIGH>
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willcome
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response 25 of 64:
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Jan 8 22:28 UTC 2004 |
Re. 5: Valerie's script IS DoSing the system, which has had absurdly high
load averages all day, in addition to being slow. I don't understand why you
think Valerie should be allowed to attack the resources of a not-for-profit
corporation.
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naftee
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response 26 of 64:
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Jan 8 23:02 UTC 2004 |
M-net is older and more mature than GreX, which is clearly populated by
children.
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willcome
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response 27 of 64:
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Jan 9 00:43 UTC 2004 |
(and gay fags.)
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jaklumen
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response 28 of 64:
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Jan 9 02:49 UTC 2004 |
When you canuckleheads stop jacking off, let me know.
resp:16 I'm seeing the scribbling in the kitchen/cooking conferences.
I would imagine the mass scribbling is making some past discussions
look stilted and funny-- and anyone looking back (if they do) will
never know what she said in those parts. But I suppose she wished to
make a complete departure, leaving nothing behind-- with as little
trace as possible.
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naftee
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response 29 of 64:
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Jan 9 05:16 UTC 2004 |
Hey, that's an insult. THAT"S A COLLECTIVE INSULT. YOU HURT ME WITH THAT
CANADIAN INSULT.
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bhelliom
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response 30 of 64:
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Jan 9 15:42 UTC 2004 |
Give a rest folks. You can discuss policy crap in the item for which it
was intended.
I personally do not think that scribbling everything that she has
written was a childish act. If I were to leave under such
circumstances, I'd want everything I'd written to be erased. She wants
a complete break from the syste, and I can't say I blame her. I doubt
she would have done so if she thought the system would be crippled and
it isn't. Beyond that I will make no assumptions. Having said that...
Have some class people, and leave her alone. She's gone, and she can't
answer for herself. Speculating about her motives is pointless.
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mynxcat
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response 31 of 64:
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Jan 9 15:54 UTC 2004 |
I can see why she would erase all her posts.
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other
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response 32 of 64:
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Jan 9 16:27 UTC 2004 |
Personally, I'd rather just erase all the posts of certain other
users...and then chain those other users into small holes in the
ground for a few years.
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bhelliom
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response 33 of 64:
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Jan 9 17:33 UTC 2004 |
I'm seeing a scene from Monty Python now, Eric. You meanie!
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jaklumen
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response 34 of 64:
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Jan 10 12:38 UTC 2004 |
resp:29 now you notice that I called you canucklehead. Lots of people
are canuckleheads. One's a friend of mine. Hmm, and I'm an ugly
American apparently. But you'll get over it =P
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