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sarmad
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Time for a restart, eh?
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Sep 12 02:00 UTC 1999 |
Hi, this is Sarmad Gilani, the person who caused the stir when I posted #121
about Grex and its curent and possible future status.
I know I'm no member or anyone "important" at Grex if you will, but by looking
at the length of Coop conference I think its time for a restart (cleanup) of
the conference.
Hope this doesn't cause another stir :)
Thanks,
Sarmad.
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other
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response 1 of 59:
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Sep 12 16:16 UTC 1999 |
you contribute. that makes you important.
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remmers
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response 2 of 59:
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Sep 12 16:32 UTC 1999 |
Coop last had a restart in July 1998, so it's been a bit over a year. I
think Coop is usually restarted about once a year. So I agree that it's
time. Maybe it could be restarted at the same time fall Agora starts up.
And I agree with Rane's comment.
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richard
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response 3 of 59:
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Sep 13 22:02 UTC 1999 |
problem is, void and dang are the fw's of coop and who knows if they
even read the conf anymore to know a restart is being requested?
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lilmo
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response 4 of 59:
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Sep 13 22:14 UTC 1999 |
How many other cf's are w/o fw's, or have inactive fw's?
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i
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response 5 of 59:
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Sep 13 22:25 UTC 1999 |
To judge by PicoSpan's records, a fw was in this cf this afternoon. But
coop's fw's may have their own plans, thoughts, time constraints, etc. on
this issue.
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sarmad
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response 6 of 59:
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Sep 13 22:52 UTC 1999 |
Sounds like a corrupt society ;)
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richard
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response 7 of 59:
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Sep 13 23:00 UTC 1999 |
there are many confs that dont have active fw's-- usually either the
fw has been reaped, or has simply forgotten about the conf. For
instance, the Arts conf. lists four fw's-- Hawkers, Redeye, Barbarella,
and Ominous. All four were reaped long ago, yet the conf is still
active. I would think cfadmin should generate a list of confs that
have fw's who've been reaped. It looks bad when newusers come to grex
and join a conf, and if they try to email and get response from the fw,
they get none, because the fw isnt on grex anymore.
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remmers
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response 8 of 59:
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Sep 14 11:16 UTC 1999 |
(Heh. The "Hawkers, Redeye, etc." thing is a joke. The real fw's are
hawkeye, remmers, arabella, and omni. Haven't seen hawkeye for a while,
but the other three are definitely still around.)
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richard
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response 9 of 59:
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Sep 14 21:46 UTC 1999 |
fw's should put their handles and/or real nbames..not fake names
on the conf entrance pages-- elsewise you confuse people who read the
conf.
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janc
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response 10 of 59:
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Sep 15 00:08 UTC 1999 |
In some conferences, confusion is part of the point. Let's not make
rules.
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void
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response 11 of 59:
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Sep 16 19:48 UTC 1999 |
i tend to be something of a laissez-faire-witness. there are no
objections from me about restarting coop. now we just need to hear from
dang.
richard....oh, what's the use. nothing i say will make a difference
anyway.
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hhsrat
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response 12 of 59:
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Sep 18 20:09 UTC 1999 |
/emote feels ignored
(read item:123)
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don
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response 13 of 59:
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Sep 20 00:36 UTC 1999 |
Hmm... re the last coupla points, why is it that so many of the conferences
seem to be dead, vegetating, or sleeping? The most active conferences are
agora, cflirt (obvious reasons), and coop. The rest come after a steep
downward slope. Were all these conferences active before my time?
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arthurp
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response 14 of 59:
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Sep 21 03:30 UTC 1999 |
Conference admin generates a list weekly to look for reaped fws and fws
nearing the point of reap. Those who have been reaped are removed from
the fw list for security reasons. This is handled every week, I used to
do it. Possibly they are still listed in item 0, though.
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lilmo
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response 15 of 59:
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Sep 21 21:42 UTC 1999 |
Would it not make sense to combine some of the less active cf's, especially
if one or more lack fw's?
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carson
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response 16 of 59:
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Sep 22 02:23 UTC 1999 |
(it might, but I offer the example of Chinet, which combined and/or
killed off conferences deemed inactive. right now, there's only
two conferences with maybe a dozen users. there are other variables,
sure, but it's still an example of what might happen.)
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lilmo
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response 17 of 59:
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Sep 25 02:09 UTC 1999 |
how many cf's are currently really active here?
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steve
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response 18 of 59:
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Sep 28 01:40 UTC 1999 |
That depends on how you want to measure things. Certainly, if a
conference hasn't had any new responses in 6 months I think most would
agree that the conference is dormant, but I've seen low activity
conferences which seemed useful to its participants. I'd hesitate
trying to come up with a metric for that.
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hhsrat
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response 19 of 59:
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Nov 21 22:21 UTC 1999 |
Coop is up to 140 items, it is now mid November. Can we have a restart
please?
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don
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response 20 of 59:
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Nov 22 00:57 UTC 1999 |
What I don't get: Why is it that most of the conferences get restarted after
150 or so items, but cflirt is on its 380th?
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gelinas
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response 21 of 59:
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Nov 22 01:05 UTC 1999 |
Why not wait until the New Year?
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don
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response 22 of 59:
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Nov 22 02:32 UTC 1999 |
Would there be a reason for that?
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gelinas
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response 23 of 59:
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Nov 22 02:33 UTC 1999 |
I like aligned events. As I remember the election, a new board takes office
at the New Year. Starting a new edition of coop at the same time just seems
neater and cleaner to me.
And it's only a month and a half, or less, away.
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orinoco
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response 24 of 59:
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Nov 23 03:06 UTC 1999 |
Re#20: Most conferences don't have any official amount of time to restart
after. Some FWs prefer a bulky conference. Others prefer a trimmed-down one.
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