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popcorn
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response 125 of 205:
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Nov 24 23:04 UTC 1996 |
I've added a "tel" option to the main menu. You could send message from there
before by typing "!tel myfriend". Now you can also choose a menu option to
do that.
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popcorn
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response 126 of 205:
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Nov 25 00:36 UTC 1996 |
We had almost used up all possible uid numbers. I've configured newuser to
create new accounts in group 51 ("folks") instead of group 50 ("people").
Newuser won't allocate UID numbers that are already in use. It will fill in
the gaps that aren't being used, starting with UID 10,000.
(Actually, I created and deleted a test account with UID 10,000 -- so that
ID won't exist. We already have a user with ID 10,001, though.)
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draven
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response 127 of 205:
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Nov 25 15:34 UTC 1996 |
Why are new users placed in the 'folks' group?
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janc
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response 128 of 205:
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Nov 25 15:51 UTC 1996 |
It's mostly an artifact of the newuser program. We could set it so that new
users would be "people" to, but then it would always use the first free UID
number for each new account created. So if we delete an account, that UID
would immediately be reused. Any files accidentally left behind belonging
to the old user would then be owned by the newuser. Using a new GID causes
newuser to cycle through the whole UID set before reusing any of them a third
time.
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popcorn
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response 129 of 205:
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Nov 25 16:42 UTC 1996 |
I've brought Agora11 back on-line. Type "join agora11" at an Ok: prompt if
you're interested in seeing it. That one was the Autumn 1994 agora.
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remmers
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response 130 of 205:
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Dec 1 13:51 UTC 1996 |
The polls are open for the 1996 Cyberspace Communications Board
of Directors election. Cyberspace Communications is the
nonprofit corporation that operates Grex on behalf of the users.
To cast a vote or get more information about the election and
the candidates, type !vote at the next prompt. (If you are
reading this via Backtalk, you will have to telnet to Grex in
order to do this.)
Any user can run the vote program and cast a ballot, but only
ballots from voting members will be counted in determining the
outcome of the election. To be a voting member, you must be a
current member of Grex and have paid at least three months'
dues.
The polls will close at the end of the day (Eastern Standard
Time) December 15.
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davel
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response 131 of 205:
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Dec 1 21:05 UTC 1996 |
(Is that 3 consecutive months including December 1996? or what?)
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dang
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response 132 of 205:
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Dec 1 22:14 UTC 1996 |
(Yes)
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kerouac
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response 133 of 205:
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Dec 2 16:19 UTC 1996 |
Note: This is the first grex election in which non-members,
regular old users of grex, have been able to run for the Board.
And regular user Tsty, who fw's the coop conference here, is running.
This shows participation is welcomed! Show you support
the concept of regular users of grex being allowed to participate
regardless of their ability to make monetary contributions. Vote for
Tsty.
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janc
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response 134 of 205:
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Dec 2 19:24 UTC 1996 |
Well, sort of. The board decided Tsty doesn't have to be a member to *run*,
but he still has to become a member if he wants to *serve* after being
elected. So you still need to be able to make a monetary contribution (or
find someone to make one in your name) to be able to be a board member. The
only thing that has changed is that you don't necessarily have to do so
before being elected. If tsty does get elected and doesn't become a member,
then he can't take office, and probably another election gets held to fill
his seat (or something like that - it's a bit unclear). However, he has
promised to become a member if elected.
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popcorn
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response 135 of 205:
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Dec 3 03:20 UTC 1996 |
I submitted Grex for the "Hot Site Of Ann Arbor" award. We got it!
Grex is this week's Hot Site Of Ann Arbor!
Here's the e-mail that arrived to announce it:
> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 1996 14:29:46 -0500
> From: Dan Horn <danhorn@umich.edu>
> To: webmaster@cyberspace.org
> CC: Valerie Mates <popcorn@cyberspace.org>
> Subject: Hot Site of Ann Arbor: Grex
>
> Hi. We've selected Grex as this week's Hot Site of Ann Arbor!
> The Hot Site of Ann Arbor is presented by the Ann Arbor Student Guide,
> which is sponsored by Diamond Bullet Design. The award honors sites
> made about or in Ann Arbor with high-quality design, exceptional
> usefulness to the Ann Arbor community, or which are just plain fun!
>
> We invite you to display the "Hot Site of Ann Arbor" logo on your web
> page. To do so, you need only include the following html code:
>
> [html code omitted]
>
> Let me know if you have any further questions.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> -- Dan
>
> -------------------------------------------------
> Dan Horn
> dan@diamondbullet.com
> http://www.diamondbullet.com/
>
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janc
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response 136 of 205:
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Dec 3 03:34 UTC 1996 |
See http://www.diamondbullet.com/StudentGuide/UMHotSites.html for their
reasonably nice description of Grex.
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robh
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response 137 of 205:
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Dec 3 06:16 UTC 1996 |
I was wondering who had sent them mail about us...
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tsty
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response 138 of 205:
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Dec 3 14:05 UTC 1996 |
re #134 .. exactly correct.
and let me say, with the finest politikal polish, "if elected, i will
join (again)!"
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popcorn
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response 139 of 205:
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Dec 8 07:32 UTC 1996 |
I've made two changes to Picospan:
1) I've added a command called "ignore". You can use it to turn on Grex's
twit filter so that Grex doesn't show you responses from some particular user.
For example, if you don't want to see any responses by popcorn or srw or robh,
go to a "Respond or pass?" prompt or an "Ok:" prompt and type
ignore popcorn srw robh
It will give you feedback on what it is doing. It makes a permanent change
to your Picospan configuration files. If you run it lots of times, your
.cfonce file will grow large, but otherwise that shouldn't hurt anything.
2) For commands run within Picospan, I've changed the default shell to
"/bin/sh". This may make some people's pagers start faster. Also, when you
type "!command" to run a command, that may run faster.
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popcorn
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response 140 of 205:
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Dec 8 07:48 UTC 1996 |
Oh -- the "ignore" command assumes that you use Grex's default item
separators, response separators, browse format, and pager. If you have your
own ones set, the ignore command will set yours to the defaults. You'll need
to edit your .cfonce file manually to combine your customizations with the
ones from the ignore command. The ignore command adds info to the end of
your .cfonce file, so your old definitions will still be there, but inactive.
If you didn't understand the previous paragraph, or if you don't know what
a .cfonce file is, this means you can use the "ignore" command safely.
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omni
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response 141 of 205:
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Dec 8 09:03 UTC 1996 |
Gee, I havn't needed a twit filter since tnt was lurking about. ;)
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rcurl
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response 142 of 205:
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Dec 8 17:02 UTC 1996 |
Grex has been amazingly twitless for quite a while. A couple have flown
in, but appear to have crash landed. With the low incidence of twitness, I
want to read those responses - we have the infection at a low level, but
need to stay alert to invading twititus, in order to apply the proper dose
of twiticide.
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srw
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response 143 of 205:
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Dec 8 18:26 UTC 1996 |
Fine. I don't think we do this to encourage use of the twit filter.
A burst of activity like that from Valerie is usually an indication that a
user has requested a twit filter and found the instructions on how to use it
very difficult to follow. Valerie's efforts are just to make the process
simpler. Besides, it's a good idea to be prepared.
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chelsea
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response 144 of 205:
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Dec 8 22:04 UTC 1996 |
The twit (ignore) filter is a helpful tool for those
who know that ignoring unwanted behavior is the best
response but who can't always avoid venting.
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popcorn
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response 145 of 205:
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Dec 9 09:10 UTC 1996 |
Srw is exactly right. Someone sent mail to staff asking how to use the twit
filter. I've never used it, so I looked up what to do. You had to edit your
.cfonce file and add some lines with a lot of complicated )(%L type of stuff
in it. For a lot of people that's not easy. So I got inspired to make it
easier. I'd been thinking for a while about doing it anyway, so the user's
question about how to do it inspired me to write the command.
It still could use some improvement. For example, it doesn't include a way
to list who you are filtering, nor a way to turn filtering off again. (You
can do both those things fairly easily by editting your .cfonce file, though.
No need to get complicated )(%L type commands into the file.) I'm adding
those improvements to my To Do list.....
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janc
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response 146 of 205:
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Dec 9 16:58 UTC 1996 |
I've installed a new version of Backtalk. Users of the Pistachio interface
should see a number of changes:
- New button design. I think these are a bit more legiable, though smaller
than the old buttons. They still aren't super great.
- Fairwitnesses can now change button colors in their conferences.
- There is an "item list" button on each read page so you can go directly
to the list of items from more places.
- The "item list" page now has a "read since" option, so you can read
all responses and items posted after any given date. It allows a lot
of flexiblity in the date format.
- When you read a long item, it won't display more than 40 responses on
any given page. It will give you buttons to see the next or previous
blocks of responses. You can change the number to another value on the
user options page.
- If you use "frames" mode, There is no longer a border between the
control panel and the body of the text. I dont know if I really like
this change.
- Many other small enhancements.
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kerouac
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response 147 of 205:
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Dec 9 17:29 UTC 1996 |
Hey! All you fairwitnesses out there! Access your confs through
Backtalk and put up HTML entrance screens. Not everybody coming here
through the web is going to understand or like ASC ii graphics. It
looks more professional to have an HTML entrance screen for the web
version. Backtalk allows for both an html and asc ii version of a login
screen. Just think, an fw can put his/her own PICTURE on the entrance
screen even (assuming they have a pic of themselves stored on another
computer somewhere that they can link to) Tbe possibilities are
endless.
Certainly, COOP and Agora, and Intro, should all have alternate html
screens.
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rcurl
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response 148 of 205:
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Dec 9 17:35 UTC 1996 |
You think users want to see the fw's puss everytime they join? Yuch!
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cmcgee
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response 149 of 205:
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Dec 9 17:43 UTC 1996 |
This fw is not interested in having her picture on any web page. Nor do I
have the equipment or knowledge to develop a page for a purely local site.
Not everyone thinks the Web is the only way to go.
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