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I hate to interrupt the flame-fest, but in the spirit of compromise, I'll once again suggest making one or two of our conferences available via anonymous access, while keeping the rest closed. (An idea I've shamelessly stolen from the River.) This way, Web surfers can get some idea what we're about, without really changing the nature of Grex (IMHO). All bbs users would know the confs were "open to the public", so as long as f-w's are careful about asking permission to link items to these places, nobody will be caught be surprise. To follow brighn's analogy, the New York Metropolitan Opera does videotapes of its performances once in a while and shows them on PBS, but that doesn't make them a television program.
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