This is the item for telling people about all the *other* wonderful
conferences on Grex.  Spring Agora is NOT everything - there are about
ONE HUNDRED other conferences here on Grex, on all sorts of subjects -
books, poetry, cooking, sex, web pages, women, role playing games - 
you name it.  Type "help conferences" at the Ok: prompt to see the
list, or just check out the ones that are touted in this item.

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Never mind.

By the way, is there a way to delete a bbs response after
you've posted it?

I believe you can use "scribble" at the 'Respond or pass?' prompt.

Thanks, Jeffrey. That does the trick.

Notes for fellow-newbies: SCRIBBLE is a synonym for ERASE (you can use either
command). The command must be typed completely, unlike most other bbs commands
which require only a unique prefix. You must specify the number of your
response to be erased.

Do the counts of new items and responses displayed when you start bbs include
all conferences, or just the default Agora conference?

good questions. Does anyone know of the .cfrc file is parsed when starting
bbs? I used to be able to 'browse new' auto-magically.

The count of new items and responses is for the current conference, whichever
one that is. If you leave one conference, say agora, to join another
conference, say coop, you'll get a count of new items and responses for the
new conference, in this example, coop.

I don't know whether bbs parses the .cfrc file. I don't have one, but I do
have a .cfonce file, which does get used.

Another note to fellow newbie Grexers -- Definitely do check
out the other BBS conferences besides Agora. There is an
amazing amount of really interesting material on every subject
imagineable going back to the early 1990s.

Definitely set up your cflist file. It's a list of conferences
that you want to check regularly. After you read new content
in Agora, enter the BBS command N (NEXT) to check the
conferences in your list for new items and responses, too.

Note that the main Grex menu's change command choice to
maintain your cflist (which is mentioned in documentation
inside and outside BBS) does NOT work currently. Instead, run
remove conferences from your list.

You can also directly edit the file: ~/.cfdir/.cflist
x

P.S. The final "x" above is NOT a kiss.

Stingy with the X's

You bet. I'm no floozy.

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excuse my language their. :) I am the proverbial newbie, thanks papa for your
golden tips. 

Here who wants this hug ----> < > :)

P.S. the above blankness 5.16/n **IS** a kiss.

We love you, too, nydel.

How can I get a really Unix shell?Help me.

Nydel is wise! In-fact i fully agree with nydel about gopher. 

Not too sure about the snog though! :/ (or the crossed wires here :) )

JJYYPPCC, you can change your Grex shell with the `change` command. Pick Shell
form the menu, then set your shell to one of the following:

       /bin/sh
       /bin/csh
       /bin/ksh
       /usr/local/bin/bash
       /usr/local/bin/es
       /usr/local/bin/psh
       /usr/local/bin/rc
       /usr/local/bin/sash
       /usr/local/bin/scsh
       /usr/local/bin/tcsh
       /usr/local/bin/zsh
       /cyberspace/bin/bbsh
       /cyberspace/bin/menu
 .

If you are validated, of course.  If not your are stuck in a restricted
shell (resh).

You can hit the Koopas with your shell but make sure you jump if it
ricochets off of a pipe.

Also, green koopas will walk off a cliff, but red koopas are smarter and will
not walk off a cliff. Beware of blue koopas, as they walk faster.

This shell was made to order. That's why it fits me so well.

Hmm..still having weird experiences listing new items in bbs cf's...

The system is trying to trick you into thinking it is vibrant and useful
with new posts. People are interested in Grex!

Be productive
Be  Compliance
Be   All that you can be

Grex is wearing parachute pants and a Frankie Goes to Hollywood shirt. 
Holding an ice cream while checking the Casio watch. Humming "It's a
Sin" by  Pet Shop boys in the mall. They are showing Preadator in the
cinema in 20 minutes. Play some defender  when the ice cream is gone to
burn some time. Compliance and productivity is the mantra of mall rat
Grex.

Wallet chain...bum a smoke...another quarter on the Defender screen
"I'm up next"

Wow...Such a Warm atmosphere here? Grex must have Hundreds of new users 
waiting to be validated.

The people that actively participate are warm and friendly, but most of that
is in 'party' and on gopher I believe. There are really only one or two sour
grapes here in bbs... and really only a handful of active users period. What
grex really needs are more people who are willing to participate.

What tfurrows said.

Also, a hallmark of both Grex and its sister site M-Net are a somewhat
ascerbic and dry sarcastic wit. It's not meant to be personal or mean;
just funny. Feel free to join in!

I go with the "warm atmosphere" sentiments; Grex is indeed quite a cosy place
to hang out, and a warm friendly bunch of people to hang out with. The 'party'
comms program is a good place to meet other Grexers, even if they are not
online at the same time. The Grex gopher server, has not long been back online
, after 'quite' a few years (how many years now?) and is a great addition to
the gopher universe: well worth a visit, or adding your own gopher page to
the server (some tutorials in user: papa, and tfurrows, gopher holes, to help
create your own gopher hole and join in :) ).
More people would be nice. 

I come here for the puzzles

I'm "Dazed and Confused". Does anyone have a quick answer to this question? What the heck happened to Grex?? How does a "Public Service System" lose the public? I've read most of the BBS stories and the history of Grex. Does Grex believe they can revive Front/Talk / Back/Talk?? No seriously. Is there a plan to bring in new users? Are you guys/gals just toot'in your horn? Remembering the "Good Old days"? I'll tell you what..I'd kill to be sitting in front of the console of Grex servers, wherever that is. But that's just me. I had it great in 1994 with LI.NET but that was many moons ago. No sense in crying over spilled milk right. So What the heck happened??

resp:37
The World-Wide Web happened.
Smartphones happened.
Broadband and Wi-Fi happened.
Angry Birds happened.

Where have you been?

We are here because we enjoy Grex more than the alternatives, but 1994
is not going to come around again.

I get that part. I guess I don't understand why Grex didn't jumpon the Web bandwagon. Even I could see where the NET was going in 1994. There was Google then MySpace, then Wordpress. Is running a Web server that costly? I don't know? I know you UNIX guys hate the Web but man if it pays the bills? Now I see Grex wants to try and put a spark into Gopher. I think that's great but doesn't the world want a Web Page? Is Gopher going to attract new users? What kind of new users? Programmers? Unix Admins? I don't know?. How did SDF get so big? Maybe Grex needs a Server in Iceland? Japan? Get me a Plan ticket. I'll go! Anyway in case anyone is interested the Web side of Back Talk doesn't work right but I managed to login. There's a 505 error that needs to be fixed. It looks like Grex was on to something with Back/Talk. it's a damn shame it didn't work out. Now don't everyone get all bent out of shape. I'm not bashing Grex. If I could go for a walk with you guys (Wherever it is you go) I surely would. I'd love to hear the "Grex Stories". I have a few of my own. That's just my opinion.........I could be wrong. ;-) Steve

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