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Grex > Coop12 > #172: Proposal for web interface for mail.... | |
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scott
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response 28 of 45:
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Feb 26 00:24 UTC 2003 |
(somehow this is starting to remind me of the Simpsons episode where Mayor
Quimby starts a crusade against illegal aliens. :( )
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other
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response 29 of 45:
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Feb 26 02:48 UTC 2003 |
re #25: I wonder what drugs Mr. Cage is on, and whether he's willing to
share, since I neither entered nor have previously responded to this item
and know of nothing to which he is referring. ;)
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russ
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response 30 of 45:
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Feb 26 02:51 UTC 2003 |
Re #20: I haven't seen a horde of Polish-speakers descend on party
and exclude all the English-speakers. Hindi speakers are another matter.
(Apparently they don't know how to switch channels either, which is a
point for my argument against 'bots.)
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cross
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response 31 of 45:
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Feb 26 04:17 UTC 2003 |
Regarding #25; Ugh, are you sure that 2 minutes and 20 seconds wasn't
due to a transient problem with grex's DNS? Perhaps it had nothing to
do with the load on grex itself.
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aruba
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response 32 of 45:
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Feb 26 04:53 UTC 2003 |
Grex's ID policy does not make it harder for foreign users to send in ID -
where did you get that idea, gull? Checking the records, I see that Grex
has received money from Australia, Canada, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, The
Netherlands, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland,
Trinadad, and the UK. So Russ is simply wrong to suggest that no one
outside the US supports Grex.
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russ
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response 33 of 45:
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Feb 26 05:36 UTC 2003 |
(I just canNOT keep all these Eric's straight. I meant ea, of course.)
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gull
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response 34 of 45:
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Feb 26 13:58 UTC 2003 |
Re #32: Sorry, then. I thought that had come up as a problem during the
last debate about ID requirements.
Russ seems to have it in for Indians specifically, which I'll admit
makes me a bit uneasy about his motives.
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mynxcat
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response 35 of 45:
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Feb 26 15:26 UTC 2003 |
Re 30> I'm not sure where you're getting your statistics from. I've been on
pretty regularly since March, and I've seen Hindi speaking people come into
party and flood it with their language excluding the Englsih speakers maybe
once, and that was when I was awake at 4:00 am and I was the only English
speaker around to start with.
However I've encountered the Polish and Spansih speakers on more than one
occasion during the day. gull seems to be right. You do have something agains
the Indians. Not sure what they've done to you personally, but it's pretty
disheartening to see.
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russ
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response 36 of 45:
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Feb 26 22:21 UTC 2003 |
Re #31: I don't see how DNS would create problems between Grex
and Grex's terminal server. OTOH, I have seen Grex running at
a crawl on many occasions.
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cross
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response 37 of 45:
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Feb 26 22:55 UTC 2003 |
My understanding was that most of the problems had to do with remote
users logging in from the network; perhaps I had it reversed. If that
was the case, however, why would a load problem affect local users
(ie, those coming in through the terminal server) and not remote users
(ie, those coming in through the network)? I too have seen the
system crawl, but no one really takes any data to find out why, so it's
hard for me to explain why.
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russ
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response 38 of 45:
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Feb 27 02:42 UTC 2003 |
Re #34: Nah, the ones I really have it in for are those Scottish
scum whose idea of fun was to pretend to rape anyone female who
wandered into party. (But after I messed with their minds when I
found them them in party, they decided they didn't like it here.)
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greycell
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response 39 of 45:
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Feb 28 13:53 UTC 2003 |
Hi to All Grexers..
I got a notion after reading most of these comments that "racial
discrimination" is still there in this world. Anyway no one can change all
people's mind at once...it will take some time. But most of us should try to be
kind.
About the webmail support at grex.
I use it for emailing grexers only.
And think that its not bad to have an interface like SquirrelMail for email.
But i can't give you any data pertaining to Load on grex and things like that.
but i think it won't increase load on the grex.
but the main problem will be that people may use grex only for email purpose.
instead for me grex is mainly for interaction using backtalk
so what you say
regards
mukesh
:)
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srw
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response 40 of 45:
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Mar 10 03:57 UTC 2003 |
I feel like there has been very little replying to greycell's questions.
Most of the discussion has been on other topics. Jan gave a good answer
in resp:1
I would like to reinforce that by saying that we offer mail (in part) as
an inducement to get new users to log in and then use other features of
the system, like conferencing (BBS) . If we let them use web mail, we'd
be trying to enter hotmail's niche. We can't provide that kind of
service. Mail is not the main purpose of Grex, anyway.
OTOH
Perhaps Grex is just afraid to make things too convenient, for fear of
being overwhelmed by demand -- somethign admittedly the internet can
easily so if you provide a cool enough service for free. But in
fact you could promote BBS and Party on web mail pages if we did web
mail.
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womble
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response 41 of 45:
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Mar 14 05:52 UTC 2003 |
I would like webmail for members only. It is suffientl desirable it might
result in a few more subscriptions. The time I want to do email most are
usually the times I'm in a foreign country with the neaest net access
being a web-only phonebox. I appricate though that a members only service
would be somwhat against the princlples of grex.
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gull
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response 42 of 45:
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Mar 14 13:54 UTC 2003 |
Hmm...interesting idea.
Actually, I'd find IMAP access for members more useful, but I suppose
there are probably security implications to that.
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keesan
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response 43 of 45:
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Mar 14 15:26 UTC 2003 |
You can set up grex mail to forward to a webmail address and there are plenty
of free ones available. What is a 'web-only phonebox'?
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jep
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response 44 of 45:
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Mar 15 22:52 UTC 2003 |
I was just going to mention what resp:43 said. That seems a lot
better to me as Grex needn't have member-only services, it doesn't
have to consume it's bandwidth for graphics, and doesn't have to set
up and maintain a WWW mail service.
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tonster
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response 45 of 45:
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Mar 23 02:47 UTC 2003 |
resp:42: You could offer IMAP for members and use something like
squirrelmail, which tunnels it's webmail interface over an imap
connection. basically, an imap frontend.
resp:43: there are apparnetly some new phone booths coming out that
offer internet access at per-minute rates like phone booths. I see
commercials for these fairly often, especially late at night.
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