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Grex > Coop7 > #48: VOTE for Name of New Grex Newsletter. |  |
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rcurl
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response 100 of 141:
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Jun 5 15:54 UTC 1995 |
You and I are more hesitant...and maybe a few other longer-time users...
but we're a minority.
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selena
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response 101 of 141:
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Jun 9 11:39 UTC 1995 |
Agora is someplace that I won't go, because, even if I forgot
all the STUPID items, I'd have a hell of lot more to forget the next
time, due to how fast they are entered.
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carson
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response 102 of 141:
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Jun 9 14:02 UTC 1995 |
Beats having to forget formerly non-stupid items. I'd rather know up
front. Not that this has anything to do with the name of the
"New Grex Newsletter."
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remmers
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response 103 of 141:
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Jul 26 16:07 UTC 1995 |
Top five vote-getters for newsletter name are
Respond or Pass 21
Drift 17
Tales from the Dungeon 17
Breakfast Food of Champions 15
The Grex Connection 15
All other candidates received fewer than 15 votes.
Since the votes are publicly readable, you can verify the results.
A simple way to display the counts is by entering the command
!cat /var/spool/votedir/board/votes/* | sort | uniq -c
You'll see a list of abbreviations for the various name candidates
with a tally of the number of votes received by each. To decode
the abbreviations, do
!more /home/remmers/candlist
(Omit the ! from the commands if invoking them from a standard Unix
shell.)
If a candidate doesn't show up in the tally produced by the first
command above, that means it didn't receive any votes.
I believe the plan is to have a runoff vote among the top 5?
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rcurl
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response 104 of 141:
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Jul 26 16:23 UTC 1995 |
That is correct.
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rcurl
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response 105 of 141:
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Sep 9 06:02 UTC 1995 |
How goes setting up the second round of voting, remmers?
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lilmo
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response 106 of 141:
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Sep 13 06:01 UTC 1995 |
I haven't EVER read Agora; seeing the size of it, I (rightly) figured I'd
never get through it, and decided to start by going for a cf that looked like
it would fit my interests. I started reading coop when there was a specific
issue of interest to me to be discussed here mentioned in the motd, and I have
been an active participant there ever since (except for the summer), even tho'
I, too, am not a member. I have had a few of my suggestions taken up, even
as jep has, and have usefully (I hope) summed up others' positions on
occaision. My personal take on Agora is that any item that applies to another
cf ought to be linked there ASAP, and Agora's access to it CUT OFF, leaving
only a note as to where it went. Then fw's can try to keep it vaguely "on
topic", and Agora readers will have time to hit coop and the cf's that
actually focus on topics of interest to them.
(By cutting off Agora's access, I mean to disallow reading/adding NEW
responses, but leave #0 and other early responses there to pique the interest
of passersby in going to the cf's that address their interests)
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rcurl
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response 107 of 141:
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Sep 13 07:12 UTC 1995 |
Mark, join agora, and immediately enter fixseen at the Ok: prompt.
That tames it. The next time you j agora, you will see a small,
select, group of seasoned responses.
I don't like killing the item in agora just because it has been
linked elsewhere, but I always forget it in one or the other
(depending on whether I'm only interested in seeing how it plays
out this season, or want to continue in the topic). [Entering
forget at the RorP prompt does what you want - cuts it off, but
only for you.] However I do like your idea that, if extended, suggests
that just before agora is to end for a season, that a list of all the
topic continuations - the links that had been established - be
posted. You can't tell from the header <linked item> where it has
resprouted, but that would be useful if you really want to follow it.
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lilmo
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response 108 of 141:
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Sep 14 02:02 UTC 1995 |
Why SHOULD I join agora? I ahve enuf trouble keeping up with coop and iq !!
I am, in fact, behind in coop now. And I can't stand reading just the last
half of a conversation in a format like this. There are constant references
to what went on before, and I really feel lost when ppl talk about the part
of the conversation I missed. So fixseen is a good sol'n for some ppl, but
it just wouldn't work for me.
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steve
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response 109 of 141:
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Sep 14 15:19 UTC 1995 |
The reason to join agora is to participate in some of the really
cool items there. Right now we seem to have a glut of neat things
there.
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lilmo
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response 110 of 141:
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Sep 18 01:36 UTC 1995 |
Alright, I'll check it out... but I won't like it, I won't I won't !! :-)
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rcurl
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response 111 of 141:
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Oct 31 21:46 UTC 1995 |
remmers has set up the FINAL ROUND vote for the name of the Grex
newslette - the candidates are listed in #103 (and in the vote program).
Type vote or !vote (depending on shell) to run the program. Voting
is open to all users and will run until 30 November.
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srw
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response 112 of 141:
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Nov 2 06:04 UTC 1995 |
Any chance of getting the 'turnout' command turned on? Just curious.
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remmers
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response 113 of 141:
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Nov 2 11:20 UTC 1995 |
As with the previous runoff vote for the newsletter name, I've
made the vote directory world-readable, so you can just look
in and see who's voted for what. The directory is
/var/spool/votedir/board/votes.
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gregc
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response 114 of 141:
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Nov 2 14:03 UTC 1995 |
Question: What do the letters in parenthesis after each item signify?
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sidhe
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response 115 of 141:
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Nov 2 15:37 UTC 1995 |
It would appear that those are standardized abbreviations for the
various titles..
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remmers
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response 116 of 141:
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Nov 2 18:49 UTC 1995 |
Right--when you vote for a particular name, what's actually
recorded in the file is the abbreviation. (I'll leave it as
an exercise for the reader to figure out why I'm recording
abbreviations rather than full names, and why I'm bothering
to display the abbreviations to the voter.)
Since we're voting, I suppose it's fair game to discuss our
name preferences in the hopes of swaying popular opinion. I
like "Respond or pass" because of its unique Picospan
associations and the way it suggests Grex's primary reason
for being. We might run into legal problems with "Breakfast
food of champions". "Tales from the dungeon" sounds like the
name of a horror fanzine (and besides, Grex might not always
reside in a "dungeon"). "Drift" is what we do too much of.
"Grex connection" isn't so bad and has the distinction of
being the only candidate with the name of the system in it.
I still prefer "Respond or pass" though.
If we pick a name that doesn't have "Grex" in it, I strongly
suggest that "The Grex Newsletter" be adopted as subtitle and
prominently displayed on the masthead.
My two cents.
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rcurl
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response 117 of 141:
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Nov 2 19:39 UTC 1995 |
I'll see you, and raise you two.
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lilmo
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response 118 of 141:
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Nov 3 02:16 UTC 1995 |
Re #116: As a member of the "editorial board", I support your proposal to
add "The Grex Newsletter" as a subtitle to any title not containing "Grex".
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gregc
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response 119 of 141:
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Nov 3 12:32 UTC 1995 |
I'
I'll fourth John's reccomendation.
"Tales from the dungeon" is a play on the "Tales from the crypt" title.
Reflects grex's strange location.(Which john is right, may not be permanent)
and is weird enough to attract people's attention. (BTW, if you think there
arn't certain "horrific" aspects to this system you've been sleeping in
class again john. :-) )
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abchan
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response 120 of 141:
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Nov 4 01:22 UTC 1995 |
I liked "Tales from the Dungeon". Then again, I also read every mystery
novel I could get my grubby little paws on back in the fifth grade :)
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robh
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response 121 of 141:
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Nov 4 01:29 UTC 1995 |
So which Grex staffer will have their likeness used for the
character of the Dungeon-Keeper?
"Hello, kiddies, time to get a GREP on yourselves, before
the daemons come out and scare the chsh out of you!
HEE hee hee hee!"
OK, something like that...
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scott
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response 122 of 141:
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Nov 4 02:43 UTC 1995 |
Me! Me! ME! Meeeeeeeeeee!!!!!! I want to do it!
(I've even got a good malevolent laugh!)
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lilmo
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response 123 of 141:
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Nov 5 01:29 UTC 1995 |
I just think that "Tales from the Dungeon" will feel a bit limiting, and also
might not be particularly enlightening about WHAT, exactly, it is. If I saw
"Tales from the Dungeon" on a two-page flier, I would think that it was a
collection of horro stories, or an advertisement for such a book or periodical
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remmers
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response 124 of 141:
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Nov 5 10:18 UTC 1995 |
Glad you agree with me.
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