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sarmad
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Be a part of a website, write columns (This is NOT Spam)
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Oct 8 03:08 UTC 1999 |
Hi everyone, this is Sarmad Gilani, remember me? :)
Anyway, wanted to ask all of you here if you would like to be a part of my
website, called CyberPakistan (www.cyberpakistan.com)
I'm looking for an e-Columnist, or someone wanting to write columns online
to be shown on the site. We have many resources, we just need people
toContribute! Anyone is welcome, but just let us know who you are and stuff
like that. :)
To contact me, click on the Contact Us link and send us an email, or just send
it from Grex to : info@cyberpakistan.com
Thanks!
Sarmad
P.S. I decided to post this here because I know of many people from
India/Pakistan and perhaps othes who might be intersted. This is by no means
"spamming"
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remmers
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response 1 of 55:
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Oct 8 15:14 UTC 1999 |
(This item would get a wider audience if it were posted in the Agora
conference. You can ask the fairwitness of Agora, login "katie", to
link it if you want it to appear there.)
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don
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response 2 of 55:
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Oct 8 23:14 UTC 1999 |
I have doubts to the apropriateness of this item being in this conference.
Anyone else agree?
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albaugh
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response 3 of 55:
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Oct 9 06:31 UTC 1999 |
Yeah, technically it's off topic. But we can be friendly and helpful
for a moment or two... :-)
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lilmo
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response 4 of 55:
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Oct 12 23:51 UTC 1999 |
Perhaps the 'writing' cf, too? And if he starts looking for someone to write
on a particular topic, there would be other relevant cf's.
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don
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response 5 of 55:
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Oct 13 01:27 UTC 1999 |
The writing cf is dead. Completely dead. I posted The Story of my Life in
there around two months ago, and that's been the most recent posting. Which
brings me to the next issue: Why don't we just kill all (or most) of the
non-agora/coop/staff/helpe conferences, since they just take up room?
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gull
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response 6 of 55:
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Oct 13 02:46 UTC 1999 |
There are a lot of conferences that I read that only see action every month
or two. That doesn't mean noone's reading them, and it doesn't mean the
material that's there isn't interesting reading or a valuable reference. My
take is that the old postings in relatively inactive conferences are
something that, once we delete, we can't replace; unless we really need the
space, I'd sure think twice about removing them.
I was poking through the hardware conference, recently (which isn't really
inactive, but the principle is the same) and I realized that a lot of the
older stuff in there is getting to be historically interesting, at least for
us computer geeks. Some of that knowledge is also getting hard to find for
people who *do* still tinker with old boxes.
I understand the urge to 'tidy things up,' but I don't think those
conferences are hurting anything.
---- Rambling follows ----
I guess I've gotten sensitive about this lately after seeing 'artifacts' of
sorts being thrown away. A guy I know in California sent me, a while back,
some pictures of an old Cray sitting in the rain on the loading dock behind
one of NASA's buildings. That handbuilt piece of computer history wasn't
going to a museum; no, it was going to a metal recycler to be scrapped out.
Vector-math supercomputers are about to disappear entirely from the face of
the earth -- they're being phased out everywhere. I think it's sad to see a
piece of history being unthinkingly thrown away.
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mdw
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response 7 of 55:
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Oct 13 05:44 UTC 1999 |
The world is full of packrats and neatfreaks.
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scott
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response 8 of 55:
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Oct 13 12:34 UTC 1999 |
(The NSA's museum of cryptography near Baltimore has a Cray on display)
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cmcgee
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response 9 of 55:
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Oct 13 16:23 UTC 1999 |
I sometimes search very inactive conferences for old information. And a
couple conferences that I'm fw in don't see action for weeks/months at a time.
But I do scan them *every single time I sign on*. So I'd prefer inactive cfs
to stay around.
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gull
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response 10 of 55:
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Oct 13 19:17 UTC 1999 |
Re #7: Yeah...it's pretty obvious which category I'm in, I guess. ;>
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don
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response 11 of 55:
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Oct 13 21:01 UTC 1999 |
re #6 and 9, have you seen how dead the writing cf is? There hasn't been any
activity in there for around a year. I'm talking about scrapping those
conferences -- not moderately active cf's like hardware and jellyware.
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scott
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response 12 of 55:
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Oct 13 22:12 UTC 1999 |
But why? We have plenty of disk for conferences.
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davel
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response 13 of 55:
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Oct 14 02:11 UTC 1999 |
In many cases, sooner or later someone will try them who will liven them up,
for a while. I also value our ability to hang on to inactive conferences.
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gull
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response 14 of 55:
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Oct 14 03:00 UTC 1999 |
Re #11: Maybe you should explain why you feel this is important? I'm not
sure what inactive conferences are harming.
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devnull
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response 15 of 55:
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Oct 14 19:57 UTC 1999 |
I would be very unhappy if the writing conference went away. I suspect it
has some interesting material that I would enjoy reading if I ever find
the time to carefully read it...
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