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ric
response 25 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 16 19:23 UTC 2000

Western Michigan ?  Yeah, the colors of shit and piss didn't do much for me
while I was there..
senna
response 26 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 17 03:50 UTC 2000

Florida's uniforms are great, and used to be even better.  I don't know about
their hockey uniforms, but Bowling Green's football uniforms (logically, they
are orange) aren't that bad.
mooncat
response 27 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 25 13:43 UTC 2000

How does a fairwitness set colors in a conf?
janc
response 28 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 25 21:41 UTC 2000

If you visit the conference with Backtalk, you'll find a red button
on the conference home page that leads to a control panel for setting
conference options.  Color setting is on there.
janc
response 29 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 25 21:46 UTC 2000

I installed a new version of Backtalk on Grex.  This is a release full
of little features and bug fixes.

New stuff in 1.0.1:

  Welcome Page:
  - Looks a bit better to lynx users.

  Entrance Page:
  - Restored yellow background.
  - There is a "Summarize Active Items" button on the home page that
    brings up a summary of how many new items there are in each of
    your hot list conferences.  If you want this to come up everytime
    you enter backtalk, there is an option you can set to do so (note
    that if your hotlist is long, this is likely to make the entrance
    page come up rather slow).

  Edit Hot List Page:
  - List of conferences was broken, is now fixed.

  Conference Home Page:
  - If you know the item number(s) you want to read, you can type them
    into a box on the conference home page.
  - There is a button to list participants in the conference.  Like the
    Picospan participants command, this is hopelessly slow.  So much so
    that the button probably should go away on Grex.
  - Conference names are now capitalized by default.
  - Fixed a bug with "resign" that nobody ever noticed was there.

  Item List Page:
  - Formatting cleaned up.
  - You can now do a "read unseen" to see new and unseen items.
  - There is now a "mark seen" button.  You can also mark all responses
    entered before a certain date as 'seen' (handy if you lost a
    participation file and know when you were in the conference last).
  - Fixed a Y2K bug in "read since yesterday" code.

  Read Page:
  - The conference name at the top of the page is clickable to return
    to the confhome page.

  Invisible Stuff:
  - Interfaces (like pistachio and vanilla) can now be distributed
    separately from the core Backtalk system more easily.
  - Better compatibility with Yapp.
  - Improved portability to an ever-widening variety of strange Unixes.
mooncat
response 30 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 25 22:38 UTC 2000

Ohhh... Okay. :)
remmers
response 31 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 25 23:52 UTC 2000

Nice changes, Jan.  Thanks.

(Feature request:  In the item list page, I'd like an option to
list just the items with new responses, like what "browse new"
does for you in Picospan.)
omni
response 32 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 26 04:24 UTC 2000

  Thanks, Jan.
jep
response 33 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 26 20:03 UTC 2000

I keep getting freaked out when I join a conference in Backtalk, and see 
the following:

Agora has 125 items: 0 brand new, 11 with new responses.

I keep reading the "125" as "new responses" or "new items".
mooncat
response 34 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 26 22:27 UTC 2000

John- it must be a Perry thing, I keep doing that too.
janc
response 35 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 27 03:38 UTC 2000

It seems pretty unambiguous to me.  Is there are a way to format that
message that would seem less alarming to you?
mdw
response 36 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 27 05:14 UTC 2000

I know that I thought long & hard about the
        55 newresponse items and 52 brandnew items
        First item 1, last 176
message before I put it into PicoSpan.  Confer did something different;
I think it may have listed out each item with new responses, perhaps
something like:
        New response items:
           1   2   3  20  35  72 123
        New items: 241-245
I didn't like that display, because if you haven't been in a conference
in a while, you get a very scary list of items with new responses, and I
never found having a simple list of item #'s all that useful.  I think I
was at least somewhat tempted to leave the "First item X,last Y" part
off entirely, but I did want to say something if there weren't any new
items, and I also wanted the output from "display conference" to be
similar and show the same information.  Using the words "first" and
"last" was deliberate - I wanted to use the same words that could be
used in item ranges, "read first" or "read last".
anithap
response 37 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 27 12:00 UTC 2000

Hi
jep
response 38 of 67: Mark Unseen   Apr 27 16:18 UTC 2000

I think it's just a matter of getting used to it.  Maybe something like:

Agora has 0 brand new items, 11 with new responses, 125 total responses.

I also think #36 sounds like an interesting option to make available.  
How about letting people configure what they want to see, Jan?  Would 
that be difficult?
russ
response 39 of 67: Mark Unseen   May 11 00:23 UTC 2000

IWLTA that the part of the conference login message which reads
"This conference has been restarted, join <confname> for the old
version" will become obsolete after a while.  Such messages should
probably include a hint at the actual conference version number
(e.g. agora17) for ease of reference in the not-so-far future.
remmers
response 40 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 12 14:42 UTC 2000

A vote is now underway on a member motion concerning the status
of the scribble log.  Type "vote" or "!vote", depending on your
prompt, to see the text of the motion and for further information.
Discussion relevant to the motion is in the Coop conference,
Item 173.  Voting ends at the end of the day (EDT) on June 22.
janc
response 41 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 02:16 UTC 2000

Is there a URL to vote over the web?
carla
response 42 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 05:53 UTC 2000

IWLTA that I have what could possibly be an interview for the most promising
job I have ever interviewed for, tomorrow at 1pm.  Cross your collective 
fingers for me, k?
iggy
response 43 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 09:35 UTC 2000

this weelend is the solstice parade in the seattle neighborhood
of fremont.
lots of irreverent displays, including nekkid bicyclists.
tpryan
response 44 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 11:08 UTC 2000

        Plenty of fat bottom girls to ride their bicycle, bicycle?
jep
response 45 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 13:07 UTC 2000

Very exciting, carla.  Good luck!
remmers
response 46 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 14:48 UTC 2000

(Re #41:  No web voting for proposals yet.  Sorry about that.  One has
to log in via telnet or dialup.)
carla
response 47 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 15:32 UTC 2000

Thanks jep, I'm gonna need it! I'm so nervous right now!
I'm getting ready to go, just went through my portfolio.  Thinking that it
would look a lot better with more time but then again it got me my last
job ok.
otaking
response 48 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 13 22:00 UTC 2000

Hope the job interview went well for you Carla. ^_^
carla
response 49 of 67: Mark Unseen   Jun 14 04:03 UTC 2000

it went very well.  They are asking me back sometime after the fourth 
of july for a second interview when the art director gets back, and there is
maybe some talk of me working there for a month long trial period.  This
waiting is gonna just about kill me though.
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