response 126 of 211:

May 13 22:40 UTC 1997

... and the misspellingz too.... 

response 128 of 211:

May 15 02:41 UTC 1997

deleted them?

response 130 of 211:

May 15 10:44 UTC 1997

Actually, the simplest way to get a count would probably be grep -i piped into
wc -l, unless I'm missing something big.  Any such method will of course miss
occurrences with spelling problems.

response 132 of 211:

May 16 19:54 UTC 1997

I got distracted by a computer game and wasn't on Grex for almost two weeks,
but I've come back and have finally carried through on the other half of
openning Backtalk to unregistered reading.  There are now links on Grex's web
pages that allow unregistered reading, so the "flood gates" are open (I expect
a trickle).

Once again, if you don't want people without Grex accounts to be able to read
your responses through Backtalk, run the "shy y" command.

Unregistered readers will see links to "registration" and "login" on most
pages.  I hope this will encourage them to become registered users.

I've also set up an interface to make it easy for you to put links to Grex
conferences, items or responses on your web page.  The following URL's will
work in any web page:

  A link to the agora conference:

     http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:agora

  A link to item 2 of the agora conference:

     http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:agora:2

  A link to response 8 of item 1 of the agora conference:

     http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:agora:1:8

  A link to responses 0, 3, 6 through 14 and 34 of item 1 of the agora conf:

     http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:agora:1:0,3,6-14,34

Of course, these particular links are a bit dangerous, since when agora gets
restarted, they will point to different stuff.  You should probably say
"agora21" instead of "agora" in there.

These links will put you into the pistachio interface unless you have a
primitive browser (like lynx), in which case they will put you in the
vanilla interface.  They use the unregistered reading, so people won't be
asked for a Grex login when they follow these links, and they will be in
read-only mode when they get there.

I've added the above information to Grex's WWW FAQ.

response 134 of 211:

May 17 01:02 UTC 1997

After a long (wow, quite long) delay, Grex is now running on all
error-correcting modems!  

(These are the ones we had a big fundraiser for, then couldn't use until we
had Centrex, etc...)

response 138 of 211:

May 17 18:05 UTC 1997

It's not strictly necessary, but it's nice.  Things do run faster and smoother
over a 9600 connection than over a 2400 connection, and 2400 is so obsolete
that it's likely that newer modems in the not to distant future won't connect
to them.  My modem, for example, won't connect to 150, 300, 900, or 1200. 2400
is the lowest it does, and it must be error correcting at that.  

Thanks, Scott.  I now have a much larger number of modems I can dial. :)

response 142 of 211:

May 21 02:25 UTC 1997

   Valerie is right about the undeleted accounts.  I smelled something
fishy when an account I'd created in Janurary wasn't in the reap list
but didn't get around to looking at the problem today.
   The reap program has an interesting bug in it.  Our passwd file
is a little unusual, in that the uids in it go from 0 to about 62950,
and then start at 10,000 and climb upwards again.  This is because
uids can't go beyond the magical 16-bit boundary of 65535.
   Reap works quite well walking through the passwd file, 'till
it hits the 10000 range uids in the middle of the file.  It doesn't
"see" those new accounts; thus reap has been merrily killing off
the original 0-62k accounts, and ignoring the 'new' set.  I know
what the problem is now, and will fix it.

response 144 of 211:

May 21 21:05 UTC 1997

Gee, I hope none of them are mine.  I doubt it, though, mine keep well
rotated.  It's nice to ahve the space.

response 146 of 211:

May 22 15:34 UTC 1997

How far back do these 13704 accounts reach in time of last use?

response 148 of 211:

May 23 03:41 UTC 1997

  How can we as peons see (view) the immortals list?