response 26 of 40:

Dec 7 21:34 UTC 2018

I would like Grex to flourish, and I would like to see more public access
computing communities flourish as a more interesting and edifying alternative
to popular social media.

However, we have to admit 1) we are a niche that appeals to only a small
minority of Internet users, and 2) there is no certain formula do this, do
that, then flourish.

Also, I think most of you are like me in that even though we would like to
help Grex grow, the fact is that Grex only occupies a small portion of our
attention, which it shares with a variety of other Internet and computing
interests, other hobbies, studies, work, family and the rest of life.

So while I am not giving up hope for Grex, I don't see a specific solution
to the problems that have been brought up. I recommend that we who care about
Grex should try to drop in to party as regularly as possible, keep trying new
stuff, keep talking about it, and God willing something may catch fire again.

response 28 of 40:

Dec 13 15:42 UTC 2018

I think the most exciting thing i have heard on Grex, was from Cross - talking
about building a 'secure' modern text based system. As a layman / half a
Geek,so to speak - i can still see the attraction in old protocols and
technology, but a museum is not the creative, usefull, social community that
Grex seems about. The internet as a meritocracy is all about doing, and freely
sharing; at least the kind of internet that communities like this are about.
So so apart from making virtual friends, what do we do - or share? 

response 30 of 40:

Jan 2 20:21 UTC 2019

I'll reply again soon. Suffice it to say I've returned to the
states, with only a mild case of Delhi belly that just don't
seem to wanna go away.... "Oh hi, Delhi Belly; what are YOU
doing in Bombay?"

response 32 of 40:

Jan 4 00:14 UTC 2019

Resp:#29 Well put tod. Yes! Conferences, UNIX and terminal socializing. We
build community, an international community of like minded people. The
conferences reflect the people who manage them, and the expertise and interest
of the userbase. UNIX  is about programmers, community building and learning
from our peers -- it seems to me (?). 
Something cross said the other day made me think. He said "at least do
security pretty well here". It seems to highlight the difference between Grex
and some of the newer Pubnixs; Grex was built to cater for a very large
audience, and the system has seen alot of people trying to break it, aswell
as contribute. Their must be alot of lessons to be learnt from this and their
must be alot of people running even their own unixlike o/s at home who could
learn alot, and would be interested in being part of a community that they
could not only learn about, then from, and then be part of. 

response 34 of 40:

Mar 26 18:07 UTC 2019

Mention it wherever Bernie Sanders advertises

response 36 of 40:

Jun 8 07:03 UTC 2019

We ran out of flyers.  I asked my mom to pick up more at Staples.

response 38 of 40:

Jun 14 13:02 UTC 2019

"memories of the University of Michigan are NOT pleasant ... the fact that
I not only passed my courses (except one physics course) but got quite a few
As, shows how wretchedly low the standards were at Michigan."
 -T.J.Kaczynski

response 40 of 40:

Jul 25 18:21 UTC 2019

re #39
Not to mention FB and Cambridge Analytica's original customers of political
data from FB personal profiles.