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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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void
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response 95 of 143:
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Jul 3 21:15 UTC 1999 |
sounds like a good idea to me, too.
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cmcgee
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response 96 of 143:
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Jul 5 12:45 UTC 1999 |
Oh yes! Scanners and cameras and softwares, oh my!
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hhsrat
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response 97 of 143:
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Jul 7 00:45 UTC 1999 |
Sounds like a really good idea. Just make sure that if it gets opened,
turn on HTML in backtalk, this is one conference that would really
really benefit from it.
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toking
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response 98 of 143:
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Jul 7 13:56 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, John and I discussed that
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lilmo
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response 99 of 143:
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Jul 8 20:38 UTC 1999 |
Having some items to link in should help jumpstart it.
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jshafer
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response 100 of 143:
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Jul 11 07:53 UTC 1999 |
I just sent cfadm a note on this and toking and I should be getting
together tomorrow. Hopefully we'll get this up & running soon.
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md
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response 101 of 143:
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Sep 22 19:33 UTC 1999 |
I'd like to propose a conference for the purpose
of discussing guns and gun control. The Agora
conference has become almost unreadable because
of the items on this subject. Ideally, any items
entered in Agora after the gun control cf is
created would be linked to the new cf and then
killed in Agora.
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albaugh
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response 102 of 143:
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Sep 22 21:35 UTC 1999 |
(no need to kill 'em in agora, it's [over]due for an autumn restart)
I'd question whether gun control "warrants" an entire conference unto
itself. Perhaps some wider "weapons" or "freemen" or "militia" aspects
could be part of a new conference. But I really don't care, personally.
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pfv
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response 103 of 143:
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Sep 22 22:02 UTC 1999 |
Must belong in Agora, if it's all this irritating..
All this *sharing* makes me feel so warm & fuzzy..
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remmers
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response 104 of 143:
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Sep 23 10:26 UTC 1999 |
Michael, are you proposing the conference because you have an interest
in discussing the subject matter further or because you want to get
items that you don't like "out of the way"?
I wouldn't support killing legal items on the basis of content. Grex has
never done that, and I wouldn't want to start now.
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aruba
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response 105 of 143:
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Sep 23 13:33 UTC 1999 |
Someone would need to volunteer to be fairwitness of the new conference.
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md
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response 106 of 143:
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Sep 23 15:18 UTC 1999 |
I'm trying to think of a way to control some very
ugly clutter, Mary. ("Spam" is almost correct, if
you make it "spoiled Spam.") Moving all the items
over to the new cf would preserve them for anyone
who wanted to keep at it, and killing them in Agora
would remove the clutter there. I realize all I have
to do is forget most of them and I won't see it
anmore, but somehow just knowing it's still there
offends me.
I also realize that someone might see the movie and
TV items I enjoy so much in the same way, and propose
that they be moved to the already extant movie and TV
conferences. All I can say to that is that there is
only one of each in Agora. Makes a big difference.
Anyway, just a suggestion.
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mary
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response 107 of 143:
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Sep 23 15:59 UTC 1999 |
I think you were responding John, but since I agree
with John, no problem.
Who defines "clutter"? These items are generating
a whole lot of discussion so someone is finding them
worth their time?
I know you are frustrated but I really do believe
exercising control over what *you* see is the best
way to avoid such content.
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md
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response 108 of 143:
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Sep 23 17:31 UTC 1999 |
Okay, okay. I've been leaning on the
"forget" button lately, as a matter of
fact. Maybe the answer is to keep entering
items like your "secret celebrity" one
that's such a hit. People who aren't
into spitting at each other need items they
can respond to.
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