response 26 of 110:

Sep 24 14:18 UTC 1994

        re: the hardware conference... please go ahead and find a new fw for
that conference.  I found today, to my astonishment, that I hadn't read
all the new responses since June.  I knew I hadn't been a very good fw for
the conference, but that's ridiculous.
        I plan to continue reading the conference, at least occasionally, but
a better choice can be found for fw.

response 28 of 110:

Sep 24 22:32 UTC 1994

John, I don't think that you should give up being a FW just because a
better choice can be found. I can think of SEVERAL conferences that
fit that bill. You really shouldn't let a three-month "absence" bug you
that much either; all that might mean is that you could use a co-FW.

I noticed that you don't have an automated list of conferences
to go through. One of the things I use to help me keep track 
of conferences is a .cflist. This list lets me use the check
command to see which of the conferences I read have new responses.
It also lets me use the next command, so that I don't have to 
guess at which conferences I haven't been in. A .cflist is rather
easy to set up. From just about any Ok: prompt, you can type:

  set list

and you will be placed in your default editor. From there, all you
need to do is type in the names of your favorite conferences. They
can all be on one line, or all on a separate line, or a combo of the
two. PicoSpan doesn't really care as long as there's something on 
the list.

Here's hoping you won't give up yet.

response 30 of 110:

Sep 25 00:25 UTC 1994

I'll volunteer to fw the pseudo conference.

response 32 of 110:

Sep 25 07:58 UTC 1994

Should I break the news to Carson?  Yeah, what the hey.  John's one
of the most experienced Picospan users on the system.  I'm not sure
what his current status on M-Net is, but he's at various times been
root and cfadm and suchlike, over there.  Check /u/jep/.cfdir/.cflist
for his .cflist file.  :)

<popcorn hugs carson and gives him an A for effort and his good explanation
that surely will be useful to other people>



Re 31: Are you a pseudo?
Re 30: You're definitely a pseudo!  Soon as we find out if sarissa is
a pseudo, I'll add one or both of you as fw's for the pseudo conference.

response 34 of 110:

Sep 25 12:51 UTC 1994

Where's Hoolie when you need him?  :)

response 36 of 110:

Sep 26 14:03 UTC 1994

It's not written in stone, but it is traditional that the pseudo
conference be fair witnessed by pseudos.  I'm still waiting for
sarissa's answer about whether or not she or he is a pseudo....

response 38 of 110:

Sep 26 19:05 UTC 1994

 I will volunteer for the micros conf. I know the commands. I am a f-w.
 I guess that I'm qualified.

response 40 of 110:

Sep 26 22:17 UTC 1994

Say omni1 - with you in micros and me in hardware, we could crash everything.

response 42 of 110:

Sep 27 02:59 UTC 1994

 Interesting thought.  ;->

response 44 of 110:

Sep 27 12:13 UTC 1994

Cool!  Could someone check with Ziggy to be sure that's OK?

response 46 of 110:

Sep 28 21:34 UTC 1994

        Boy, you're taking your chances when you ask me something in an
item... heh.  Valerie, unless you can think of some reason to leave me in
as a fw that escapes me, being as I've never done a single fw-ish thing
there, and don't ever plan to, I'd say you can remove me.  If it's
advertising or something, just have the fw(s) leave my name in the list; I
don't actually have to be a fw.  (-:

        I'm root on M-Net, vice president of Arbornet, sysop of the K-12
project, member of the Arbornet technical committee, fw of the staff,
ibmpc, unix, sports, and policy conferences, and ex-cfadm on M-Net.  Heh.
How is carson supposed to know that?  I appreciate your suggestions very
much, carson.  I appreciate any attempt to help.

response 48 of 110:

Sep 29 00:18 UTC 1994

actually, jep, I knew most of that. I feel even sillier.