Valerie Leaves.

Jan 8 07:10 UTC 2004

I no longer wish to be a part of the Grex community.

I have thought about this decision for years.  I am sure about it.

I have deeded over Grex's recipe archives to Colleen.  I've deleted the
recipes that I had posted.

I've written a command that people can use to remove all of the responses
they have ever made, from an item, from a conference, or from all of Grex.
It's running now to remove all of the responses I entered as "valerie".
It takes a long time to run.  I will run it later to remove all of the
responses I entered as "popcorn".
It does not delete responses from staff or co-op conferences.  I figured
Grex didn't need holes in the staff conference, and as a former board member,
treasurer, secretary, and president, of Grex, I figure that Grex doesn't
need me to delete my responses in co-op conferences, such as treasurers'
reports or meeting minutes.

If you would like to delete all of your responses, you too can run this
program.
To delete all of your own responses in agora item 100, type:
   /a/p/o/popcorn/scribble agora 100
To delete all of your own responses in the kitchen conference, type:
   /a/p/o/popcorn/scribble kitchen
To delete all of your own responses in all conferences (except co-op and
staff), type:
   /a/p/o/popcorn/scribble all

The program can't delete your responses if they're in items that are frozen
or otherwise read-only.

I've closed the Grex logo store on CafePress.  It hasn't had an order in so
long that its account balance was negative $5 anyway.  I've also removed the
pointers to it from the login screen and from Grex's web pages.  If anybody
wants to re-open it, I still have the art and would be willing to e-mail it
to someone.

I resign as fair witnesses of the following conferences: archive, the
original auction, auction2, info, info2, kitchen, plants, staff, www, and
win.  This leaves the following conferences without fair witnesses: archive,
info, newinfo (which is okay because it is not actually being used and it
could be deleted), and win (WIN is defunct so it doesn't matter).  The
remaining fw of the original auction conference is robh.  Auction2 is coyote
and senna.  Kitchen is denise and eeyore.  Plants is scott.  Web is ajax and
robh.  If the staff conference doesn't have a fw, I'm not worried.  Though
come to think of it, I think mdw added himself as a fw a few years ago.  I've
removed myself from the login screens for those conferences.  I wish to have
my original ascii art and HTML design removed from the Backtalk login
screens for the following conferences for which I am not a fair witness:
agora20 (I did only the colorization of the backtalk login screen, not the
ascii art), agora21, agora22 (I'm not sure if I designed everything for
agora22 or if I only did the colorization); agora23; agora24; agora25.

I resign from the Grex staff.

I have told people in the past that they would always be able to reach me at
my valerie@cyberspace.org e-mail address, so I will keep my valerie/popcorn
account.  Once I have finished deleting all of my responses (which could
take some time at the rate it is going) I will probably log into my account
again someday, but not soon.  I do not wish to be a part of this community
anymore.  The one exception that I'll probably continue to show up for
some of the Saturday Morning Walks.

I have cleaned out the files in my account.  (Yay -- free disk space!)

I have changed the password to my root account to a string that I cut and
pasted in, so that I no longer know the password.  (This is largely
symbolic, since I know the other roots' passwords.  I would appreciate it if
staff would change the passwords to something I don't know.)

I have given the collection of unassigned keys to the Pumpkin to Jan.

I have deleted my account on gryps.