Anyone got any ideas about what information other than the telephone number
we ought to make a part of our flyers?

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  maybe a list of the cfs and a short piece on the "friendly" debate
that goes on here. you know the usual bull

Supported baud rates and modem settings.  300/1200/2400, 7E1.
The word "member-run" might be nice too.

AHA!  There it is!  The meat I was looking for--thanks, John!

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I agree, Valerie.  The more different kinds of fliers we have out there, the
more different kinds of people we'll appeal to.  The more the merrier, I say.
(well, with the exception of encouraging illegal or anti-social behavior.
Those folks'll find us anyway.)

Hmm... the flyer I whipped off today has GREX in big bold inch-high
letters at the top of the page.  My hope is that it'll pique people's 
interest.  Now that I think about it, I do wish I'd emphasized the
fact that access is free a bit more.

There's 100 copies of them for the JCC.

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Thanks, John!

  I would be willing to pass out some fliers, on a casual basis.
send mail.

We need a catchy slogan like, "The Most Fun You Can Have With Your Modem!"

(something like that...)

I'm already designing a tri-fold flyer with that as the slogan...I hope to
distribute them through computer stores of various kinds.


I heard it here first, but it was too good not to co-opt!

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That was my hope--that something glossy that they can put in the sack
and lokk "generaous might appeal.  (Also, have you been meeting with
the manager or just trying to deal with clerks?)

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Well, I don't claim that dealing with the manager is a guarantee--but the
clerks don't have the authority to agree to hand out flyers.  It's probably
worth a try...

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We actually have two so far -- imma and jangel.

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 Radio Shack in Briarwood seems to like Grex too. I gave them 10 or so.

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I'll take credit for submitting us to the MI Computer User.

and for not setting up the "adult" section?

Actually, I've always thought that Grex was a pretty adult board,
as such things go.

I guess it's a good thing I didn't tell him about our sex .cf.

 It's hard to tell with all the children here.

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I sat down in the Michigan Union for my usual cholesterolfest yesterday
and lo & behold there was a Grex flyer.

One thing to mention in future flyers: U-M students can access Grex even
if they do not have a modem.  They can go into their normal e-mail program
at Angell Hall or whatever site and type "dialout-AA" instead of "um" at
the "Which Host?" prompt.  The Which Host? prompt is actually a Merit
prompt...dialout-aa requests a local dialout modem.  Students will have
to enter their U-M MTS User ID and password, and their MTS account (which
consists of $15/mo. in free MTS play money) is charged 25 cents.  

-Deacon Blues-

Thanks for the pointer, Andrew.  (If you'd like to create such a flier for
the UM market, I'd be thrilled to reproduce and distribute it.  And to
have some new fliers to distribute!)

I suppose this is some sort of booby-trap that I'm walking into, 
but here goes:

So, I've been hanging around GREX for a couple weeks.  It's all well and good,
I find my way around the conferences, read Usenet newsgroups, blink at
Unix stuff.  But I don't ever believe I have seen any documentation about-->

WHAT IS A GREX, ANYWAY?

O.K.  So I asked.  Does my user status self destruct?

GREX is Latin for a group, a gang, or a social gathering--also a flock.

Aggregate and gregarious are two english words derived from the latin "grex".

Grex is the offspring of Colossus and Goliath. :)

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Valerie,

Pardon?  I don't want to take someone else's credit. 

(I actually got them to do it)

Hmmm, the Border's fliers could have been from my little guerrilla paper party
some weeks ago, I guess...

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