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Grex > Music2 > #119: Music Conference Administrivia | |
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orinoco
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response 50 of 73:
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Jul 28 19:18 UTC 2001 |
<nods> It sounded like a good idea, but it seemed hard to put into practice.
Two thoughts:
You could have a login screen listing the current incarnation of some of the
`traditional' items: Now Playing, John's Ragtime Journal, maybe the endless
Napster item. On the one hand, these items are pretty often active, so
they're a good thing to have pointers to. On the other hand, I don't know
how interesting they'd be to someone who doesn't follow the conference
regularly anyway.
You could also have a login screen explaining the Picospan `browse' and `find'
commands. "To find currently active discussions about Celtic music, type
`find "Celtic" since -5'", or something of that sort. I'm not sure if that's
assuming too much Picospan knowledge of new joiners or not -- after all, once
you find the items, you need to be able to call those items up, get to the
response you want, and so on.
Was the idea behind the Current Item List to help new members, or as a crutch
for the memory of regulars?
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krj
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response 51 of 73:
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Jul 29 01:57 UTC 2001 |
Newbies would just need one line to point them to the Picospan Cheat
Sheet in Item 1.
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arianna
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response 52 of 73:
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Jul 29 03:39 UTC 2001 |
if you think 300 items is bad, you shoulda seen how slow the original poetry
cf was... over 999 items... I would go make a cup of tea and a sandwich while
I waited for it to load...
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krj
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response 53 of 73:
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Jul 29 06:28 UTC 2001 |
Somebody at lunch said today: Gee, after the Cooking conference was
restarted, it was never the same... :/
Here are the items I want to link into the next music conference.
I can be talked into adding many items into this list :) though
there are some I'd just as soon leave here, to take a fresh start
on the topic:
item
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9 231 Ragtime Notebook
(One of the oldest active items on Grex. History demands
its continuation.)
293 35 Music Retailing
(We just rolled this item a little while ago)
300 6 Mickey's Miscellaneous Musical Musings
313 31 History of Music in two semesters
315 73 The Sixth Napster Item
(The Napster items roll with Agoras)
317 14 British Folk
In addition, there would probably be pretty directly, new items on the
following topics:
Personal introductions
NP: Music to Conference By
CD recorders
(or should we continue the existing item?)
Folk & Roots: Continental Europe & The Mediterranean
(Mickey and I have a lot to pour out here)
World Music: Africa and other warm places
Opera (linked to Classical; I might just take the existing opera item)
Shows At the Ark
<krj gets very scared at the idea of tampering with the music conference.>
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scott
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response 54 of 73:
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Jul 29 13:47 UTC 2001 |
I think we ought to link or at least cut&paste the current CD burner item,
since it is full of still relevant info.
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krj
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response 55 of 73:
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Jul 29 15:18 UTC 2001 |
ok.
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ashke
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response 56 of 73:
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Jul 29 15:48 UTC 2001 |
don't forget the "heavy rotation" item. If not a link, then a new one.
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krj
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response 57 of 73:
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Jul 29 17:20 UTC 2001 |
We can create new versions of any of the items you want, but stuff
which is mostly/entirely lists is the sort of thing I would prefer
not to link. Remember that today's conference will be available as
"music2" for as long as Grex lasts.
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krj
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response 58 of 73:
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Jul 31 17:31 UTC 2001 |
Hmmm, did talk of a restart convince everyone to save their thoughts
for the new music conference?
Is there a rough consensus to go ahead with this?
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eeyore
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response 59 of 73:
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Aug 1 00:14 UTC 2001 |
I'd say go for it. :)
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cmcgee
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response 60 of 73:
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Aug 1 01:06 UTC 2001 |
Sure, do it.
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remmers
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response 61 of 73:
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Aug 1 13:55 UTC 2001 |
D'accord.
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krj
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response 62 of 73:
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Aug 1 21:28 UTC 2001 |
I have sent mail to cfadm requesting a start to the restart process.
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tpryan
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response 63 of 73:
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Aug 1 22:13 UTC 2001 |
What I would like to see is when we start to get clutter in
music3, items get linked to music2 and removed from music3. Things
like the On Stage 1997 item is wonderfull stuff for us grex verbage
pack rats, but a huge obilisc to new users, who may be used to the
newsgroups where all postings go away in around two weeks or less.
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krj
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response 64 of 73:
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Aug 3 17:15 UTC 2001 |
If we were going to do that I'd want to set up maybe music3 and music4,
with music3 as the storage conference. I like having the conference
be an archive of a five-year block of time.
Walter has set up the new conference; I'll try to load the first item
and link in the items mentioned above this weekend sometime.
(Other fws, please hold back on this for now.)
Any more items people want to link out of this conference to music3?
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anderyn
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response 65 of 73:
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Aug 3 17:44 UTC 2001 |
Well, the new one, 320. Please. :-)
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krj
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response 66 of 73:
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Aug 3 18:12 UTC 2001 |
I'll plan to link all new items beginnng today into the new conference.
(Unless they are really, really, really stupid ones designed to piss off
the fairwitnesses...) If you have some comments to add to an old
item, and it isn't on the list of items to be linked to music3 --
"Musical Obituaries," for example, or "Heavy Rotation" --
consider starting a new incarnation of this item with the "enter"
command.
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krj
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response 67 of 73:
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Aug 3 23:42 UTC 2001 |
------(planned item 1 text, comments welcome)-------
(remember this is the first thing a conference newbie will see)
Welcome, newcomers and veterans, to the Grex music conference!!
We talk about all sorts of music here, as well as the technologies
and business of music. Feel free to start a discussion on a topic
you are interested in, and see who joins in.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please send e-mail to
your active hosts, krj@cyberspace.org or scott@cyberspace.org
NEWCOMERS: If you came to Grex via telnet or direct
dial, here are my suggestions for getting up to speed with
our antique Picospan conferencing system. (You might want to print
this text out, or make a few quick notes to have a cheat sheet.)
* at the 'OK:' prompt, type read since 2/1
to read discussions in the conference since February 1.
Replace that 2/1 date with a date between two weeks and two months
ago, depending on how much you want to read.
* Next, at the 'OK:' prompt, type browse
to see all the subject lines. Note down the item numbers of any
subject lines which look promising. To read item 3,
the Ragtime Music item, type read 3
* At the bottom of each item, the prompt will read 'Respond or pass?'
There is a third choice: forget
Use 'forget' whenever you find an item too boring to bother with.
((If you came to Grex through the Web interface, none of these
commands apply to you. Backtalk, the Web interface, is pretty
intuitive for most users.))
* To get back to see item 1 & these instructions again,
from the 'OK:' prompt, type: r 1
Thanks for visiting Grex's Music conference!
Grex also has a Classical Music conference: j classical
and there are two old versions of the
Music conference kept as archives:
1981-1986 j music1
1986-2001 j music2
(responses will be frozen)
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krj
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response 68 of 73:
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Aug 3 23:48 UTC 2001 |
Ooops, make that 1991-1996 and 1996-2001, sigh.
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krj
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response 69 of 73:
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Aug 6 18:07 UTC 2001 |
I'm hoping to get to this in the next day or so, though my life is
complicated right now by Leslie's return from Europe.
I'm a little worried that after I link in the continuing items,
Music3 is going to look like The Folk Music Conference.
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arianna
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response 70 of 73:
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Aug 6 19:28 UTC 2001 |
don't worry, the young'n's will take care of that. *Wink*
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tpryan
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response 71 of 73:
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Aug 7 16:56 UTC 2001 |
I would like to support the music3.cf/music4.cf to keep
the conference clean and cleanable.
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krj
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response 72 of 73:
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Aug 10 19:51 UTC 2001 |
I have set up music3 and asked conference administrator Walter (i)
to swap it in. At some point very soon this conference will become
"oldmusic" and it will also be known as "music2;" the original
music conference will be "music1."
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krj
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response 73 of 73:
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Aug 18 17:04 UTC 2001 |
As of a little bit ago, the conference restart has happened.
Please let me know if there are any more discussions to link
over from this conference; go nuts creating new versions of
your favorite list items.
Good bye to music2, which I think was pretty successful.
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