response 83 of 120:

Feb 20 06:18 UTC 2000

This is pre-supposing 3 things: (1) there are lots of new people who
find some of the content of agora "offensive", (2) we want to keep thse
easily offended people on grex, and (3) someone wants to go to the work
of maintaining a twitlist that will please these people.  I think all 3
suppositions are likely to be false.

response 85 of 120:

Feb 20 09:35 UTC 2000

What's going on here?

Ok: j decorum
Failed security checkpoin

I thought  this conf was not authorized to be started.  Is there a private
conf already?

response 87 of 120:

Feb 20 13:05 UTC 2000

I beleive it's closed for the time being while the fw sets it up (user 'i'
mentioned this somewhere from recall).

response 89 of 120:

Feb 20 13:15 UTC 2000

Nope.  When a conference is started, it's often set up so that
only the fairwitness can join it, to set up the login screen and
one or more initial items.  Then when the fw is ready, it's
opened to the public.  Right now, it technically exists, but only
prp is in it.

There are no private conferences on Grex, other than the staff
conference.  That policy was established by member vote a few
years ago.  In my view, it would take another member vote to
overturn it.

Decorum was authorized to be started a while ago -- I guess the
reason we're still discussing it is because of the concept of its
being a collection of conferences instead of just one, which I
don't think was clear to people earlier.  I know it wasn't to
me.  Personally, I think the whole concept is screwy, unlikely
to have popular appeal, and will just lead to there being a
few more dead conferences.  Also, again speaking personally, I
think Agora is fine and doesn't need fixing.  If there's wide-
spread dissatisfaction with it, as Paul believes, why don't we
see anybody else in this item other than him expressing it?

I suppose I could be wrong, I've been wrong before, and anyway
Grex policy is to let people try out new ideas for conferences.
We even let some guy have a thing called "cyberpunk" a while
back despite some people's misgivings.  ;-)  So if Paul really
wants to try this, I suppose he should be allowed.  Hopefully
he understands that the software imposes limitations on what a
fairwitness can do, that he has to work within those limitations,
and that the burden is on him to get people interested in
participating.

response 91 of 120:

Feb 20 19:54 UTC 2000

So what about the twit filter or a seperate message board.  Any interest prp?

p.s.  prp I *really* hope you read coop6 item 96 to get some historical
perspective. Try at the next Ok: j coop6 r 96

response 93 of 120:

Mar 13 19:29 UTC 2000

R.I.P. decorum?

response 95 of 120:

Mar 15 13:26 UTC 2000

I can FW it, as I offered in the beginning. A while back I dropped my
advocacy of the conference, but if Paul's temporarily gone for a while I can
start it up. I guess I'll go by this item to figure out how to run the thing.

response 97 of 120:

Mar 17 01:09 UTC 2000

Hmm. Good question. I think that was the whole point of the conference.

response 99 of 120:

Apr 20 07:44 UTC 2000

Any interet in fwing intro DOn and letting decorum die a graceful
death with well ummmm decorum? :-)

response 101 of 120:

May 1 04:52 UTC 2000

Cool!

response 103 of 120:

Jun 27 17:36 UTC 2000

j decorum
Failed security checkpoint.

Can someone explain?  Do I need a password to get in?

response 105 of 120:

Jun 27 17:46 UTC 2000

Keesan, I don't ordinarily say this kind of thing, but go eat a bag of
vegetarian, home-grown, organic shitdicks.

response 107 of 120:

Jun 27 18:25 UTC 2000

Re #105:  Heh.  You should talk.  M-Netters have had to run from
their own general conference and take refuge in Hitone.