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Grex > Coop10 > #39: You can help tell Ann Arborites about Grex |  |
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danr
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response 75 of 111:
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Oct 23 20:14 UTC 1997 |
One thing those of us with web pages can do is to install a link to
Grex. I have one on my page.
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dang
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response 76 of 111:
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Oct 24 00:10 UTC 1997 |
Yeah, metoo.
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valerie
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response 77 of 111:
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Oct 24 01:55 UTC 1997 |
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scg
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response 78 of 111:
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Oct 24 02:45 UTC 1997 |
I think there's a winter equivilent of FestiFall. I sat a table in it in the
Union ballroom when I was involved with a UM student organization a few years
ago. I think, though, that Grex would have to become a UM student
organization to participate in that.
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dang
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response 79 of 111:
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Oct 24 21:08 UTC 1997 |
We could start a "Friends of Grex" student organization. :)
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steve
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response 80 of 111:
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Oct 25 06:37 UTC 1997 |
Thats a cool idea, actually.
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tpryan
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response 81 of 111:
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Oct 26 13:35 UTC 1997 |
Purchase ad space in student newpapers? Be sure to ask if they
have lower rates for "not for profits".
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krj
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response 82 of 111:
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Oct 30 07:53 UTC 1997 |
I would like to propose that "we" buy an ad in the program book
for ConFusion, the January SF convention run by the Ann Arbor Science
Fiction Association. $35 dollars will buy half a page; $20 will
buy a quarter page. Space reservation deadline is 25 November;
copy deadline is 1 December.
Our ad would be seen by several hundred slightly geeky, mostly
computer-literate people who love to talk endlessly.
We should reinforce the ad with a mess o' flyers at the convention.
There are probably a half-dozen Grexers who will be there.
I can be the point person on this if there are no other volunteers.'
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valerie
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response 83 of 111:
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Oct 30 16:24 UTC 1997 |
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valerie
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response 84 of 111:
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Oct 30 16:28 UTC 1997 |
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valerie
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response 85 of 111:
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Nov 9 05:15 UTC 1997 |
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orinoco
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response 86 of 111:
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Nov 10 02:36 UTC 1997 |
Is having a file called .signature in your home dir all you nead to have a
signature on your e-mail?
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valerie
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response 87 of 111:
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Nov 10 03:06 UTC 1997 |
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jiffer
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response 88 of 111:
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Nov 10 04:51 UTC 1997 |
hu? i don't get that... and i use elm... and i always wondered how i would
do that...
I LOATHE mail and don't really care for pine... so... i learned the basics
of how to use mail in less than 10 minutes.
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larsn
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response 89 of 111:
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Nov 10 14:06 UTC 1997 |
To enable signatures for elm, do 'cd .elm' and edit the elmrc file. In
particular, the entry you want to change is localsignature. Just set it to
point to the file containing the signature you want. If you're signature-savvy
and know that '-- ' means
begin-signature-so-clever-programs-can-delete-me-when-responding, don't insert
it because elm will do it for you. Happy mailing..
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davel
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response 90 of 111:
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Nov 10 15:26 UTC 1997 |
... or just edit .elm/elmrc, instead of doing the cd to .elm. Note that
either way, that "." at the beginning of ".elm" is a necessary part of
the directory name.
Actually, elm supports not one but two different signatures. The line
beginning "localsignature = " should specify a path to a file which you
want to be used as your signature on your local (to Grex) mail, and the
line beginning "remotesignature = " should specify a path to a file
containing your signature for mail going offsite (or, I think, anything
for which you specify a domain, even if that's cyberspace.org). The
two may of course point to the same file. Example:
localsignature = $HOME/.elm/.localsignature
You would then need to create a file in your .elm directory called
.localsignature
Oh, and as your elmrc file is initialized, you'll have "###" at the
beginning of the line. Sometimes people don't realize they have to
take those out to activate the line ...
If you don't *have* a .elm/elmrc file, it's because you've never set any
of your options. To create one (with all the default settings you've
been using): in elm, select "o" for "options" and then ">" to save them.
(You may, of course, first make any changes you want, in the few options
elm lets you change through this screen.)
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krj
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response 91 of 111:
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Nov 17 01:29 UTC 1997 |
response #44: Tonight I finally (!!!) finished a flyer promoting
the music conference. Heedless of the cost, I rushed my masters to
Kinko's, ordered up a couple hundred, and left a few copies of the
flyers at Schoolkids, Borders and Tower.
It's only a year after I started talking about this.
There are 400 flyers so far. Mark Ziemba and I will sprinkle them around
record shops in town, and I will work on a lower-cost second printing.
(There is also a variant version of the flyer which leaves out the
local phone numbers; I'm taking that one to the CD stores in East Lansing.)
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response #82: Uh-oh, the copy deadline for the ConFusion program book
is almost upon us. Misti: do you have a phone contact for the person
handling the advertising for this book? And can someone get me a
higher quality small image of the Grex logo? The ones I have made
by whacking down the Big Honking Image are kind of jaggy; it's not
too objectionable on a flyer but I'd like to do better for the
program book.
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mta
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response 92 of 111:
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Nov 17 04:59 UTC 1997 |
Nope. But you might ask Kathy Becker if she knows.
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valerie
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response 93 of 111:
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Nov 17 05:50 UTC 1997 |
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valerie
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response 94 of 111:
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Nov 17 05:51 UTC 1997 |
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mta
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response 95 of 111:
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Nov 18 02:37 UTC 1997 |
Just as a note, I tried to make GREX a day sponsor with Michigan radio
and was told that for individuals it costs $200. I pledged that and
then found out that for any sort of organization it's impossible to
become a day sponsor -- the best I could do would be to sponsor an
organizational challenge. For $600. That would get the GREX name
mentioned several times during *one* two hour broadcast block on one day
of the fund drive. I love GREX, but I don't love GREX that much.
I wonder if other radio stations have better deals...?
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krj
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response 96 of 111:
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Nov 18 05:25 UTC 1997 |
Maybe we could get some sort of Public Service Announcement plug on
WCBN? I dunno how much of that stuff they do.
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valerie
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response 97 of 111:
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Nov 18 13:58 UTC 1997 |
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danr
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response 98 of 111:
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Nov 18 18:05 UTC 1997 |
Just out of curiosity I wonder how much an advertisement on a commer-
cial radio station, such as WTKA or WIQB, costs. I think we'd have
more success attracting people from the listenership of WUOM, but you
never know. On WTKA, for instance, we could say we're the local
cyberspace "talk show."
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mta
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response 99 of 111:
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Nov 19 00:46 UTC 1997 |
Yep, I've heard that too, Valerie, but that's exactly what I tried to do
and was told it was completely against policy. I even talk to the
station manager.
(Maybe we've heard it on WEMU?)
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