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Grex > Coop10 > #17: Problems with the state of conferencing on Grex | |
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rcurl
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response 25 of 58:
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Jul 22 20:17 UTC 1997 |
That would be a good foil for afterward publicizing the *least* active
conferences. People are always interested in curiosities, but you have to make
them curiosities first.
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krj
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response 26 of 58:
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Jul 23 20:16 UTC 1997 |
As a counter to #1 and its report on my FW style: the most recent
item in the music conference has as its title "The Day The Music (conf) Died."
Sigh.
Looking at the staff reports, and talking to Steve Andre', brought me
to another thought: how much energy could the staff bring to
conferencing if they weren't so tied down with Staff Stuff?
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remmers
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response 27 of 58:
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Jul 23 20:57 UTC 1997 |
I saw that item and was puzzled by it. The music conference is
on my cflist and seems to have plenty of new responses every
day. It's certainly not my perception that it has "died".
I don't know if staff members would conference more if they
weren't tied down with staff work. Anyway, I think that there's
basically two ways to keep a system like this going: (1) throw
money at it, or (2) throw labor at it (or some combination
thereof). Since we have little of (1), we're stuck with mostly
(2).
All contributions will be gratefully accepted.
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senna
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response 28 of 58:
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Jul 23 21:39 UTC 1997 |
It's not as bad as that, Ken.. the entree likes to talk quite a bit, and it
seems strange to him not to have responses every few hours. It's just a bit
slower. It's not dead by any stretch.
I'm really good at things involving #2, only I have very little computer
experience in relation to everyone else.
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dang
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response 29 of 58:
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Jul 24 14:13 UTC 1997 |
Computer experience is not really necessary here. People skills are. We want
more people in the confs, and want help in getting people here. Personally,
I'm more suited to getting the hardware running rather than getting people
into the confs. I, certainly, could use other people help with that.
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senna
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response 30 of 58:
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Jul 24 22:03 UTC 1997 |
I have more people skills than computer skills, but that doens't say much :)
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mta
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response 31 of 58:
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Jul 25 21:37 UTC 1997 |
I don't know about that, Steve. You seemed pretty civilized when we met
the other night. ;)
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senna
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response 32 of 58:
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Jul 26 09:43 UTC 1997 |
I'm sure animal could seem pretty civilized if he really, really put his mind
to it :)
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orinoco
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response 33 of 58:
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Aug 11 17:12 UTC 1997 |
Re:arubas point #5
I'm younger than most people on grex, it seems, and I also find a lot of the
conferences lacking.
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lilmo
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response 34 of 58:
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Nov 11 03:11 UTC 1997 |
Re: pruning the conf tree
Confs do not have to totally disappear for us to reduce the number of confs.
What *I* would really like to see is for the cfadm (with small group of
helpers, perhaps one per catgegory of confs) MERGE confs, with one extra thing
from staff (or other programmer): a program that will load every .cflist,
and replace "deleted" confs with the "merged" confs. (er, each .cflist)
No item is lost (until the "new" confs are restared, of course), and no one
loses a conf from his/her .cflist.
Is this feasible? Desirable?
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davel
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response 35 of 58:
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Nov 12 11:43 UTC 1997 |
You'd also need to merge participation files for the users, I'd say. And
off hand I'd say it's a Bad Idea to mess with users' .cflists and
participation files without their explicit consent ... in which case you might
as well just let the users edit their .cfllists themselves.
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valerie
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response 36 of 58:
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Nov 13 18:53 UTC 1997 |
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dang
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response 37 of 58:
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Nov 13 19:38 UTC 1997 |
But you still have the problem with participation files. Big pain.
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orinoco
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response 38 of 58:
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Nov 14 00:22 UTC 1997 |
Well, in the specific case valerie mentions, I think everyone who was using
rpg or videogames has moved over to amalgam, so I don't know that it'd be a
problem.
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valerie
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response 39 of 58:
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Nov 15 06:40 UTC 1997 |
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orinoco
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response 40 of 58:
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Nov 15 22:44 UTC 1997 |
Wouldn't the 'fix' command solve that, though?
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lilmo
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response 41 of 58:
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Nov 17 00:33 UTC 1997 |
Technical question: each user has a participation file, or each conf, or each
user has one for each conf in which that user participates?
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robh
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response 42 of 58:
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Nov 17 02:15 UTC 1997 |
Each user has a separate file for each conference they're in.
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rcurl
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response 43 of 58:
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Nov 17 03:09 UTC 1997 |
Do a !ls -al .cfdir
which will show you the participation files in your .cfdir directory.
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valerie
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response 44 of 58:
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Nov 17 05:33 UTC 1997 |
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rcurl
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response 45 of 58:
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Nov 17 17:09 UTC 1997 |
Oh! I forgot...I had to make a .cfdir to stuff those files away.
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lilmo
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response 46 of 58:
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Nov 25 22:57 UTC 1997 |
If you have a .cfdir, and begin using a new cf, will the .*.cf file
automatically go to that directory, or would that one have to be moved
manually, also?
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valerie
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response 47 of 58:
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Nov 25 23:13 UTC 1997 |
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lilmo
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response 48 of 58:
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Dec 1 04:14 UTC 1997 |
OK, thanks! I just did that, and checked it, despite my rudimentary Unix.
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gibson
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response 49 of 58:
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Dec 5 05:13 UTC 1997 |
how is the .cf list used?
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