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25 new of 357 responses total.
lar
response 194 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:15 UTC 2010

This response has been erased.

lar
response 195 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:16 UTC 2010

Oh shut the fuck up you dumbass...you don;t have a clue what you are 
talking about. She left because she got her panties in a wad over the 
parody of her baby item in m-net's agora. slynne,mynxcat and a host of 
other 
GREXORS posted in the item just having fun. 
get the facts straight you lying sack of shit
richard
response 196 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:18 UTC 2010

She felt that was ridiculing her, picking on her
tod
response 197 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:19 UTC 2010

re #193
 why do you think valerie
 mates left? 

She didn't like dissent.

 she left and took all her posts down.

She left and took EVERYONE's posts down in the parenting conference.  we
had some legitimate discussions going on.  She was very pro breastfeeding
of toddlers or whatnot and some of us differed on that front.  So
instead of simply agreeing to disagree or what have you, she zippety
zapped all the items in that conference.  And believe you me, I had
volunteered MANY times to co-FW in that conference and was ignored.
I won't dish out my own suspected gender discrimination in that whole
ordeal but I will say that I was displeased to have lost so much content
of discussion (not just of hers.)
richard
response 198 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:21 UTC 2010

I thought staff should have put those posts back into the Parenting 
conf but they declined, that would have been 'censoring' Valerie right?
lar
response 199 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:22 UTC 2010

#re197

she is a neurotic cunt,she is smart as hell but her head is still 
fucked up.




re#196
as for running people away I do wish the fuck you and keesan would both 
go find some other place to vomit your stupidity on

therefore I will troll the two of you from now on.
tod
response 200 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:35 UTC 2010

re #198
 I thought staff should have put those posts back into the Parenting
 conf but they declined

They all admitted it was censorship.  Mary was the biggest supporter
of censoring because Valerie is a "friend of Grex" while the
rest of us are peasants or something.
richard
response 201 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:37 UTC 2010

valerie also used the same little program she wrote to delete her 
posts, to also delete those of JEP in one particular agora.  JEP had 
written I thought very honestly and eloquently about his divorce and 
then some time later regretted doing so and asked that all his posts on 
that subject be removed.  IFRC staff declined his request but then 
Valerie, who was herself staff, did it for him anyway on her own.  This 
action took out the posts in items that a lot of others responded to, 
and left a couple of items full of holes with the responses that are 
left there now out of context.  

These are excellent reasons why if there is a new version of grex, that 
it should be stated posts can only be edited or deleted by poster for a 
short period of time after posting.  After 'x' amount of time, the 
copyright reverts to Grex and the item and responses are considered 
published.
lar
response 202 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:39 UTC 2010

mary is a total slut...an old ugly one at that. the only one who made 
any real sense on staff in those days was cross. fatass STeve and ugly 
glenda could not stand his superior knowledge so they got all defensive 
and shit. mary was such a commie cunt she made cross resign from 
staff..with a little help from naftee and polytarp
lar
response 203 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:42 UTC 2010

re# 201

no dumbass,this is why grex should have backups to restore items like 
that and once a root pulls nazi bullshit like popcunt did then the 
privileges should be revoked.  
tod
response 204 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:42 UTC 2010

Well, if Grex told me that they expect to have copyright of all
my entries in BBS then I would probably stop participating.  I don't
want people (including Grex) having the right to steal my creative
works or relayed expressions of my own experiences.  I'm also against
having my entries webcrawled to the Internet.  Grex has always been
a spot where I can converse freely to whatever set of participants
are listed for a particular conference.  I have never seen Grex
as a place to "blog".
lar
response 205 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 22:45 UTC 2010

" the time limit is important because it would prevent circumstances 
like 
when valerie mates decided to leave grex and decided to delete all of 
his past posts she ever made here going back years."

Your stupidity knows no bounds. popcunt had root and this allowed her 
to do anything she wanted. no lame ass bbs block could stop that bitch

just shut up richard,you are a fucking fool
richard
response 206 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 23:17 UTC 2010

It is not a matter of 'expecting' to have copyright.  They do have 
copyright. Look at the bottom of the home page on the website where it 
says:  "  2008 Copyright grex.org. All Rights Reserved".  Grex has to 
be responsible for what is posted on its site.  If someone posts an 
item advocating specific acts of terrorism in Agora, the feds are not 
going to buy any claim that grex's board/staff are in no way 
responsible because they claim no copyrights.  By use of this board to 
post, you consent to grex's publishing your work and grex retains 
responsibility for the consequences of publishing it.  It has to 
because you can get a login here and post without divulging who you 
are.  Grex has to accept that it holds the legal liability for open 
anonymous posting.

We had this discussion back when the Communications Decency Act and 
Michigan's version of it were being proposed.  It was even suggested 
that if the Michigan CDA took effect that the entire Grex board should 
resign so that it would be difficult for the state to hold anyone 
responsible for what is posted here.

re #24 5tod you said earlier you were against valerie removing her 
posts in that conf, and now it seems you agree with her that she owned 
her posts.  contradictory?
mary
response 207 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 23:32 UTC 2010

Tod, sometimes it boggles my mind how you can be so confident and wrong 
at  the same time.  You've made comments like resp. #200 before - "Mary 
was the biggest supporter of censoring because Valerie is a "friend of 
Grex" while the rest of us are peasants or something". 

All the history on this incident is still available, here, on Grex, word 
for word. Someone else will have to site the conference and item 
numbers.

I didn't support Valerie's actions and I was a strong advocate of 
restoring the deleted items.  My position actually cost me a few 
friendships but I still believe allowing it to go down the way it did 
was wrong.  Very wrong. I'd take that same position today no matter the 
persons involved.  But the community voted otherwise.  Such is 
democracy. Most of us accepted that and moved on.

There is integrity in honesty.  Try it on for size, you may like the 
respect that comes with it.

marcvh
response 208 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 23:50 UTC 2010

Summary: we cannot move forward, because this community is incapable of
anything other than navel-gazing and obsessing about minutiae.
lar
response 209 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 24 23:52 UTC 2010

re#207 don't laud your self rightoeusness with me you ugly whore....you 
had 
the gall to contact a previous employer of mine.


mary
response 210 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 00:04 UTC 2010

It wasn't always like that, Marc.  I tend to think of the Grex community 
as family.  You know, real family not the idealized version where everyone 
likes everyone else.  We get thrown together and have to learn to get 
along.  Mostly.  Or at least learn to tolerate what we can't accept.  It's 
a valuable experience.  But maybe, just maybe, at some point, we learn 
enough to move on.  Next stop, the Well, where adults bicker. ;-)

tod
response 211 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 00:12 UTC 2010

re #207
 There is integrity in honesty.  Try it on for size, you may like the
 respect that comes with it.

Feel free to post your comments from January 2004 regarding the restoration.
If I'm mistaking your comments for Glenda or somebody then I apologize.  I
am fairly certain though that I recall you defending Val's actions as
"favored persons who are friends of Grex" or something along those lines.
I appreciate that you have a hardened stance against censorship.
kentn
response 212 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 00:16 UTC 2010

Re 206, by that logic, look at the bbs at the command line.  Right
there near the top it says "Copyright 2001-2005, Jan Wolter" therefore
Jan owns the copyright to the conference responses.  I'd like more
clarification on what the copyright situation really is.  From what I've
seen since I've been here, Grex doesn't want to own people's words,
but maybe the law forces that upon us.  If so, as Rane has shown, a
copyright policy can be put in place that divides copyright between
users for their individual responses and Grex for the collection of
responses and their presentation.
tod
response 213 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 00:18 UTC 2010

I'm feeling an urge to parody this item over on m-net.
richard
response 214 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 01:40 UTC 2010

re #212 actually that backtalk copyright indicates it expired in 2006, 
so possibly this means the program is in the public domain now and 
anybody here who can get the code and knows how to do it could do some 
of these updates we've been suggesting.

Also consider this, if in fact Grex does get sued over something 
posted here, and the specific post or posts are edited after the fact, 
how can Grex defend what was originally posted?  Allowing users, past 
a stated time period, the right to permanently edit or remove any item 
or response they put up at any time paat or present, could leave grex 
in a legally vulnerable situation.  Grex IS publishing these posts, it 
is putting them on the internet.

If somebody enters an item on how to do terrorist acts and then 
deletes it a day later, it has still been on grex and published on the 
internet for a day and if the item was deleted how can grex defend 
itself against those who will use their imaginations to exaggerate to 
authorities as to what was posted?  Grex isn't and can't be invisible 
in these matters, it has to assert copyright.
lar
response 215 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 01:44 UTC 2010

you are a total fool,shut up idiot,you don't have a fucking clue
kentn
response 216 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 02:15 UTC 2010

Good grief.  The copyright didn't expire in 2006.  That just means
it's probably the last time new code was added to the program and
copyrighted.  Copyrights in the U.S. go for many decades and certainly
don't end the year they were begun.
richard
response 217 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 02:26 UTC 2010

They can go on for many decades, but that one said 1996-2006.  It was 
for a decade.  Did they bother to renew it?

I suppose Grex could buy new conferencing software.  Anybody know any 
good ones on the market?
tod
response 218 of 357: Mark Unseen   Jun 25 03:01 UTC 2010

I suppose janc would sue for 5 years of back licensing..
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