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Grex > Coop > #278: Grex Town Hall -- How do we move forward? |  |
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kentn
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response 269 of 357:
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Jun 28 19:31 UTC 2010 |
But not necessarily system-wise as we've shown when we turn off the
restricted shell. But with the restricted shell, we seem to have helped
our security some albeit at the expense of general membership.
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bellstar
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response 270 of 357:
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Jun 28 21:37 UTC 2010 |
Re #264:
The web frontend to M-Net's conferences is hidden behind authentication (and
served over HTTPS). It requires active effort (or active stupidity) to get
crawled. All's needed for Grex's forums to get crawled is one hyperlink on
a third party site, which is neither active effort on part of the crawler nor
active stupidity on part of a user. After all, if you have your stuff out in
the open you're inviting people to link and to explore.
The reason Grex conferences don't appear in Google results is that Google
respects the 'robots.txt' convention. The same is not true of someone who
programs a robot to harvest email addresses or any other useful information,
say (using a Vim regex) /[Ii] \(have \)*work\(ed\)* at \(.*\)/. (Not that
there is much of valuable information on here.)
P.S. Poor tod has some unfriendly stalkers in Spokane. I wonder how come they
still haven't found this place. His presence here is very easy to find, as
is the presence anybody who ever participated in Grex BoD meetings. In this
case M-Net's worse than Grex thanks to one 'yuno.'
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bellstar
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response 271 of 357:
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Jun 28 21:39 UTC 2010 |
(Or, maybe, an unfriendly tod has some poor stalkers from Spokane...)
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tod
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response 272 of 357:
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Jun 28 21:46 UTC 2010 |
re #270
Unfortunately, Spokane is only part of that list. There's a very fun
one out there calling me a neighbor killing psychopath or something.
And a small handful of the incarcerated waiting their turn.
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bellstar
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response 273 of 357:
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Jun 28 22:38 UTC 2010 |
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WeWillMeetAgain
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tod
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response 274 of 357:
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Jun 28 22:51 UTC 2010 |
With his latest Evil Plan foiled in Bleak Expectations, Mr Gently Benevolent
declares "I shall return!" and rides away. He rides back a moment later:
Pip: You returned quicker than I expected.
Benelovent: I forgot my hat. [Exits.]
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kentn
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response 275 of 357:
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Jun 28 23:18 UTC 2010 |
It's not over. :)
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lar
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response 276 of 357:
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Jun 29 18:16 UTC 2010 |
"Grex needs to quit going into a tizzy every time someone uses the
magic
word, "censorship".
oh? you mean the way you get your panties in a bunch when someone
doesn't post using your eagle scout critera?
fuck off fat BOY
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tod
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response 277 of 357:
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Jun 29 18:35 UTC 2010 |
How do I make a knot for carrying other people's water?
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nharmon
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response 278 of 357:
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Jun 30 00:33 UTC 2010 |
haha
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lar
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response 279 of 357:
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Jun 30 03:18 UTC 2010 |
the only cool people on here are m-netters
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tod
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response 280 of 357:
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Jun 30 17:34 UTC 2010 |
I'm drinking hot coffee
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kentn
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response 281 of 357:
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Jul 1 17:30 UTC 2010 |
Here is a short article on another site (kuro5hin) apparently suffering
a decline in membership due to social media like Facebook and Twitter,
similar to what Grex is (somewhat) experiencing.
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2010/5/18/231429/217
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nharmon
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response 282 of 357:
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Jul 1 17:47 UTC 2010 |
I don't think Grex's decline is at all related to Facebook and Twitter.
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rcurl
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response 283 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:04 UTC 2010 |
They have certainly sopped up a huge amount of user hours.
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tod
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response 284 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:11 UTC 2010 |
Whatever happened with this?
#3 Mark A Conger (aruba) Mon, Sep 13, 2004 (12:28)
The executive session the board went into was to discuss a subpoena we
received from a law enforcement agency, relating to a particular user
account. The board read over the subpoena carefully, and agreed to comply
with it. We have now done so.
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richard
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response 285 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:40 UTC 2010 |
Was this related to that guy who mostly used mnet and kept constantly
threatening to sue mnet for libel because of discussions about his
rather complicated personal life, accusations that he did this or that
at home, that had taken place on party? Every time he'd get worked up,
he'd say "I'm gonna sue!" If so it might have been his lawyer trying to
get grex party logs where similar discussions might have occurred.
It is rather disturbing that the board chose to meet in 'executive
session', a priviledge not even actually spelled out in the bylaws as
something they could do, and then not discuss the details.
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tod
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response 286 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:54 UTC 2010 |
Maybe...I don't recall that guy. What was going on?
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jep
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response 287 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:55 UTC 2010 |
Executive or closed sessions are used for personnel issues and discussions
which, for any reason, cannot be made public. Every board has to use them
for some things. If it's rare, I don't see any reason to be concerned
about it.
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tod
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response 288 of 357:
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Jul 1 18:59 UTC 2010 |
The board at that time said they would discuss the matter openly after
the legal stuff was over with. I think it's well over with.
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richard
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response 289 of 357:
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Jul 1 19:07 UTC 2010 |
re #286 this guy kept threatening to sue mnet, I mean like again and
again, he'd post items on general with what he said were quotes from
legal papers he was always about to file. he and his wife both were
both users as I recall, and he had this narrow view that anything
anybody said in the confs or on party about him, his wife, his kids,
whatever mnet was liable for.
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richard
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response 290 of 357:
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Jul 1 20:55 UTC 2010 |
re #284 If the staff conference was ever opened, which has been
requested on numerous occasions, you could go back to that time period
and read the discussions about this issue that are undoubtedly on
there. However 'open' grex is supposed to be though, staff inevitably
drags its feet when it comes to opening the staff conference.
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kentn
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response 291 of 357:
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Jul 1 21:56 UTC 2010 |
Re 290: I don't think we're going to open up old staff conferences,
which were responded to under the premise of privacy due to the issues
discussed. If we do open up the staff conference, it'll be with a new
version of the conference, or so was my recollection of the Board's
discussion on the matter.
Re 282: not at all? I doubt that. Note that the (somewhat) in that
response is to indicate I don't believe it's entirely due to this reason
given in the link. There are undoubtedly many reasons why Grex is in
the situation it is today.
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tod
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response 292 of 357:
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Jul 1 21:57 UTC 2010 |
re #289
Wow, sounds crazy. I must have not been logging in at that time cuz
I'd remember a weirdo like that.
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cyklone
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response 293 of 357:
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Jul 2 00:50 UTC 2010 |
Sounds like Bill Rugg, and I wasn't even on back then; I just remember
the descriptions people posted.
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