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valerie
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response 70 of 143:
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Oct 15 14:38 UTC 1998 |
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remmers
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response 71 of 143:
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Oct 15 20:06 UTC 1998 |
Re resp:70 2nd point - Heh. Like, old topics are never brought up over
and over again and rehashed to death on BBS's. :)
The basic point - that a conferencing system provides orderly archival
- is quite correct, of course. There are software packages like Mhonarc
and Hypermail that do web archiving of mailing lists, however. But there
has to be an account on a server somewhere to store the archive, which
usually costs money. Grex, as has been pointed out before, is free.
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dang
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response 72 of 143:
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Oct 19 21:40 UTC 1998 |
Re: resp:69 Sounds like you need a new ISP.
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keesan
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response 73 of 143:
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Oct 20 21:56 UTC 1998 |
While the translators were thinking about whether to talk about conferencing
at the annual convention, I wrote in a short paragraph, before the Oct 31
deadline, to the NAFEX (North American Fruit Explorers) quarterly offering
amateur fruit growers the use of a grex conference. I may here something
early January when the next issue comes out. There are lots of questions that
would be more usefully answered now rather than in three months (how deep do
we plant the akebia seedlings that we brought home yesterday?). Plants need
to be cared for in real time. I also mentioned our bbs to the Seed Savers'
Exchange. Prepare to be swamped with new conferences (I hope). Seed Savers
are a group of a few thousand people mostly in the US who grow out old
vegetable varities to preserve them and trade seeds. I have some cowpeas from
Burkina Faso that grow 4' tall in Australia but 2' here, but at least they
survive to produce a good crop of seeds. NAFEX has a website.
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keesan
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response 74 of 143:
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Oct 27 21:13 UTC 1998 |
Could someone tell me again the fastest way to go directly to the language
conference, after you have signed up via the cyberspace.org website?
I don't want new people to have to wade through the entire list of
conferences, and beside I could not figure out how to use Backtalk this time,
after selecting Language conference I could not get to it without reading
through all the previous conferences on my list.
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rcurl
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response 75 of 143:
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Oct 27 22:17 UTC 1998 |
j language (at an Ok: prompt)
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mta
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response 76 of 143:
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Oct 27 22:39 UTC 1998 |
But you can't get an OK: prompt from the web page...
Typing this URL might work...
http://www.cyberspace.org/cgi-bin/bt/pistachio/confhome?conf=language
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remmers
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response 77 of 143:
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Oct 27 23:36 UTC 1998 |
Yep, that works, if you want the pistachio interface.
Substituting "vanilla" for "pistachio" in the above just gave me
a Backtalk crash, however.
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keesan
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response 78 of 143:
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Oct 28 01:12 UTC 1998 |
With lynx I don't think I can use Pistachio. If someone can get this working
with vanilla please let me know, or tell me where I went wrong trying to get
to Language conference from View menu of conferences, when I did the down
arrow then the enter key and got an asterisk but nothing else happened.
I think someone else gave me an address that did not have flavors.
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keesan
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response 79 of 143:
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Oct 28 01:14 UTC 1998 |
Leaving out pistachio also got me a page "Backtalk Crash".
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keesan
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response 80 of 143:
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Oct 28 01:19 UTC 1998 |
Putting in pistachio worked, it got me directly to the language page, although
I was using lynx and was told when I started from the home page that pistachio
would not work with lynx. However, there was no place to enter a loginid and
password, and I was told I could not enter responses. How does one go
straight to the language conference but first enter loginid and password?
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valerie
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response 81 of 143:
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Oct 28 03:20 UTC 1998 |
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keesan
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response 82 of 143:
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Oct 28 15:04 UTC 1998 |
Pistachio worked, got me to the language conference without having to page
down through a long menu of other conferences. I emailed your instructions
to the six people who had expressed the most interested in this, including
two who suggested conferencing, in print.
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valerie
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response 83 of 143:
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Oct 28 15:44 UTC 1998 |
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janc
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response 84 of 143:
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Oct 28 20:39 UTC 1998 |
If you want to use URL's to go directly to a conference, I recommend
ones like this:
http://www.grex.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:language
http://www.grex.org/cgi-bin/bt/peek:language:4
The first one should go to the language conference home page, the second
to item 4 of the language conference.
The "peek" interface normally puts you into pistachio, but it will use
"vanilla" for people with dumb browsers. If you happen already to be
logged into Grex, you will be logged in when you get there, but otherwise
you will arrive in anonymous read-only mode. There will be buttons on
the bottom of the page to log in or register.
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keesan
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response 85 of 143:
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Oct 28 21:18 UTC 1998 |
Thanks, one person who tried got a cut-off vanilla page. I forwarded what
he wrote me to 'help', and will suggest he try the above. This person is in
charge of the published column where translators ask each other questions,
and suggested online conferencing in print.
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keesan
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response 86 of 143:
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Jan 21 02:07 UTC 1999 |
The winter issue of the NAFEX fruit growers' quarterly journal Pomona reached
a few people yesterday. One of them called to tell me my two articles were
in it (one was about a visit with the person who called, the other contained
brief instructions how to use the grex conferencing system). I have not
received my issue yet (from Chicago). Just now I checked the Garden
conference and we have our first fruit-growing visitor in the fruit and
vegetables item. He lives in Zone 3, meaning that their typical winter lows
are 20 F less than those of Ann Arbor. Take a look to see what berries will
survive there. I am hoping for a few more responses and if so, will ask for
a Fruit Growing conference to be set up soon. Anybody mind?
Still not much interest on the part of translators, at least the 20
I emailed, but the latest issue (January) of the monthly journal should
contain some mention of grex, also the latest issue fo the Slavic translator's
journal (which will come out eventually).
Gardeners love to talk about what they are growing. Too bad we cannot
e-mail scionwood or apple samples.
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keesan
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response 87 of 143:
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Jan 21 02:28 UTC 1999 |
I just got a second response to the Pomona article, this time an email from
someone who uses Juno and has no other web access but would like to be put
on a listserve. I offered to extract the conference every week and send them
an update, but is there any easy automated way to do this with grex? I also
suggested they go to the public library and learn to access our website. This
is a pretty good response considering I have not yet even received my Pomona.
How do I forget all coop responses before today's date? At some point my
participation file got zapped during a period of vandalism.
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jshafer
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response 88 of 143:
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Jan 21 15:03 UTC 1999 |
What I would do, assuming you are in Picospan and not Backtalk,
is enter the command fixseen and then do a
read since 1/20/1999
Anyone have a better idea?
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keesan
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response 89 of 143:
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Jan 21 17:02 UTC 1999 |
That worked perfectly (I did since 1-1-99 since I forget just when this
problem occurred and I had avoided coop for a while.)
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davel
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response 90 of 143:
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Jan 21 21:10 UTC 1999 |
You could direct the output to a file and then mail the file. But cut & paste
probably will work well enough for you.
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jshafer
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response 91 of 143:
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Jul 3 07:02 UTC 1999 |
I would like to propose a conference on computer graphics. Toking
and i were discussing this tonight, and both of us are interested in
fw'ing it.
I did a brief check of the list of conferences, and it appears
that none are directly related. Several (arts, photography, and
web, to name a few) may have related items that could be linked in.
I'm envisioning discussions of specific software packages, techniques,
places for people to post links to works they've done and ask for
advice, How to create images for the web, and so forth.
Well, what do you think?
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remmers
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response 92 of 143:
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Jul 3 11:16 UTC 1999 |
Sounds good to me.
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toking
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response 93 of 143:
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Jul 3 19:19 UTC 1999 |
You know I like it baby
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aruba
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response 94 of 143:
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Jul 3 20:50 UTC 1999 |
Sounds good to me too.
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