49 new of 58 responses total.
(psst... you know scott, being the fw and all you could initiate the item and all :)
(psst... you know lee, being a Grexer and all you could initiate the item and all :)
(wonders if that's a hint :) (takes it as such)
I suppose I'm the only one payING any attention to this conference by now...
I'm watchING....
Yes, there is still some life here...
I'm still passing by.
Wow...I'm impressed.
I'm lurkING...
Wrong item, Kent. You want item 60 to make that announcement. <scott demonstrates the "FW snarl" at this clueless newbie> ;)
<snowth knows why dan's shown is face in the -ing conference.> I'm planning on addING some activity myself here, soon. Watch, this place could get pretting interestING soon...
And if people don't stop capitalizING the last three letters of words endING in -ing, I think I'm going to scream...
I hear you screamING...
Were we doING anything wrong? ;)
No, but it is wasted keystrokes. And those larger letters take more electrons, you know.
Not to mention all the innocent photons who were killed for the sake of your capital letters.
sorry. I was just being annoyING.
I wonder how many others have this conf in their .cflistING
An ever-dwindlING number, one would suspect.. This conf is moribund..
Doesn't see to be moribund to me. It is, in fact, a metaconference, discussing itself.
Well, let me know when the meta-dicussion gets around to revealing the secret behind the ascii art in the conference banner.. I'm still mightily confused by those whatchamacallems..
Aren't they partially cloned cats?
Could be. I thought they were some sort of ambulatory three-eyed tulips..
So if we're talking about how it's a meta-discussion, is it a meta-meta-discussion? So, in other words, I'm...<deep breath>...Meta-meta-un-de-re-inging!
They are three-eyed, three-eared, three-legged, and three-tailed alien cats from an Agora login screen several seasons ago. They needed a home.
No they really didn't. But that's okay, as long as they make you happy.
Oh, but they do!
What is a .cflisting and what do you do with it?
Your .cflist will automatically take you through the list of cfs that you write into it, as you enter n at the Ok: prompt.
Type !change and pick menu option C to create one.
Done, I hope it was okay to enter a few conferences that I have never even visited. Is there something I should know about how to use the .cflist?
You'll be asked if you want to join those cfs you haven't joined. You can edit the .cflist if you wan to rearrange it. I have a little script for rewinding to the top of my .cflist, which you might find useful. I call it rew, and you just put define rew_ind 9 'unix touch .cflist' in your .cfonce file. (credit goes to remmers for writing it).
Rane, I was not talking about how to play with the .cflist, or make it longer or shorter, but what purpose it serves and how to make it serve that purpose. I have tried typing .cflist at various prompts, even 'help .cflist'... Think way back, to when this was all new to you (assuming you were not born knowing these things), and let me know some of the basics. Thanks.
join .cflist, .read .cflist, browse .cflist do not work. What next?
It is automatic once it is created. When you start bbs you will start at the top of your .cflist, and when you enter n (next) at an Ok:, it will take you to the next cf in the .cflist. I *am* trying to answer your questions as you ask them, not knowing what you know and what you don't. You do not invoke .cflist with a command.
I use pico to edit my .cflist Those who are more geeky may choose emacs or vi or something else.
The !change command offers editing of the .cflist as well as creation of it (I just looked at it for the first time).
As far as I know, the only effects of having a .cflist are:
(1) It makes your default conference the first one on your .cflist,
instead of Agora;
(2) It enables use of the "next" command, which takes you to the
next conference on your .cflist.
Agora seems to still be the default conference, and the n command works, and saves me typing in join conferencename for a lot of conferences, and I don't even have to type n for those without anything new in them. Any good conferences that I should put on my list, I only have 20?
Agora is still your default conference because you put it first on your .cflist.
Only 20? Boy, that sounds like a lot to me. I have less than 10. What do you have on your list?
If I recall correctly, Agora, coop, garden, kitchen, dwelling, hippie, environmnet, laundry, classicalmusic, femme, homme, glb, micros, health, do-it-yourself, ing, nature, and I have looked at music, arts, science, cyberpunk, hardware. Any interesting discussions in other places? What do you have on your list, and which ones are active now?
This is all I got: archive cflirt enigma hippie ing oathbound test Maybe I just don't have enough time to keep up with grex...
agora inbetween scruples coop info aaypsi smalls consumer internet jelly micros hardware history cars nature ing helpers tutoring class And there are a bunch more conferences that I join by name when I have time.
Are all of these conferences really still active? Such as hippie? And could you give me a brief idea of what is going on in a few of them (both of you)?
If you join one and respond - it will be active.
A good way to find out how active a conference is, and what's
been happening in it recently -- without "officially" joining
it -- is to join it in observer mode and read recent responses.
The dialog goes like this:
Ok: join foobar
You are not a member of foobar. What do you want
to do? observe
Ok: read since -30
Specifying "observe" means that no participation file is created
and you can only read, not post. The command "read since -30"
displays all responses posted in the last 30 days. You can replace
the 30 with whatever number of days seems suitable, of course.
If you decide that you want to participate in the conference,
you can join it again and specify "join" instead of "observe".
Re: #53 Jelly? <lee looks for a conference named peanut butter>
It's actually about UNIX. Pity, really.
You have several choices: