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Grex > Oldcoop > #376: The problems with Grex, e-mail and spam | |
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cross
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response 393 of 480:
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Dec 21 20:53 UTC 2006 |
I think that Todd is referring to the group of folks who logged into grex at
nearly the last moment to nominate/be nominated/accept nominations.... At
least one of those is a staff member who does not otherwise login on a regular
basis.
Regarding #390; Aw you're a swell guy, Remmers. I'll buy you a beer one of
these days....
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tod
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response 394 of 480:
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Dec 21 21:00 UTC 2006 |
re #393
referring to the group of folks who logged into grex at
nearly the last moment to nominate/be nominated/accept nominations.... At
least one of those is a staff member who does not otherwise login on a
regular
basis.
Yea, I thought I was the only one who noticed that. It pretty much convinced
me to withdraw my nomination from the Board being that the major "problem"
voiced by users has most often been actions of the staff.
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cyklone
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response 395 of 480:
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Dec 21 21:34 UTC 2006 |
I thought it was fishy. It also occurred to me it's possible, depending on
how many "non-insiders" like tod and cross run, to essentially fix the
election in advance by choosing not run once enough other "suitable" members
stay in the race.
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slynne
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response 396 of 480:
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Dec 21 22:44 UTC 2006 |
Yeah well, I can think of easier ways to win elections where only 20
people vote.
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cross
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response 397 of 480:
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Dec 21 23:11 UTC 2006 |
I didn't think it was fishy so much as transparent.
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jep
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response 398 of 480:
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Dec 22 01:04 UTC 2006 |
re resp:378: Todd, I was involved in organizing the hardware classes
that TS Taylor taught. I tried to follow up and do it again a few years
later, along with linda, but there was no interest at all at that time.
None, other than the two of us.
I was involved in K12Net -> Teachernet. I can probably list every
person who contributed time to that project.
I was involved in lots of those things, probably all of them, but very
few others were.
Arbornet tried expanding into roles outside of those which were it's
core. All of those attempts were failures except the hardware classes.
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tod
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response 399 of 480:
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Dec 22 01:26 UTC 2006 |
re #398
I was around for all of those things also. I can actually remember a jubilant
TS coming back to the house on Forest Ct after one of the classes. K12 was
a flop because it tried to accomplish too much without enough human resource
to support it. Several 386's sat dormant or were used to play games in
classrooms. There were many attempts on the charity and education end but
at no time has the "computer conferencing" or "interaction with computers"
part of the 501(c)(3) education qualifier been missing.
You say there was never an interest in community forums or education but I
say M-Net has had that from the getgo.
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ric
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response 400 of 480:
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Dec 22 13:42 UTC 2006 |
For the record, I remember all of those things. Particularly one version of
the manual which i helped produce and we sold hundreds of copies at the Art
Fair offering "FREE INTERNET ACCESS". It was a very profitable venture for
Arbornet, and filled the coffers because 1996 was a time when people were
really starting to discover the internet. I remember the hardware kits and
the hardware classes as well.
That was 10 years ago.
My only point was that the "charitable mission" - for both Cyberspace
Communications and Arbornet - is a joke at this point. 10 years ago is pretty
irrelevant.
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tod
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response 401 of 480:
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Dec 22 17:55 UTC 2006 |
So you don't see free system access and unpaid volunteers as charitable? Hey,
that's your loss.
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cmcgee
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response 402 of 480:
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Dec 25 23:02 UTC 2006 |
(hauling this back to the email issue)
Found this in the Info Conference.
Looks like you can't email staff anymore. Is that true???
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#244 of 245: by hakleton (hakleton) on Sun, Dec 24, 2006 (15:02):
Hello, I have a problem with the mail program from grex, I am unable to
sent emails to anyone outside grex, every time I sent an email this
response comes:
Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 14:34:32 -0500
From: Mail Delivery System <Mailer-Daemon@cyberspace.org>
To: hakleton@cyberspace.org
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its
recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
grex-staff-exploder@hvcn.org
(ultimately generated from help@grex.cyberspace.org)
You are not allowed to send mail to external mail sites.
------ This is a copy of the message, including all the headers. ------
What can I do about this?
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Really, you ought to be able to send an email to Grex help.
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gelinas
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response 403 of 480:
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Dec 25 23:07 UTC 2006 |
For various reasons, most (all?)) of us (staff members) read our mail on
other systems. So "staff@cyberspace" goes off-system. I don't have a
solution to getting mail from newer users to the staff, though. :(
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cmcgee
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response 404 of 480:
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Dec 26 03:40 UTC 2006 |
That's an email addressed to help@grex.cyberspace.org
Not to staff, just to help. Surely we can figure out a way that someone can
get help questions answered. That's a pretty basice service for someone who
is new to our community.
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spooked
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response 405 of 480:
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Dec 26 04:06 UTC 2006 |
Please don't assume anything is basic to Grex staff.
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cross
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response 406 of 480:
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Dec 26 05:21 UTC 2006 |
I think using something like RT, which mediates the email on behalf of the
user (the user sends email to RT, which is local to grex, and then RT sends
email to staff, via the RT account, which could be permitted to send offsite
email). RT has other uses on a system like grex, as well (it could, for
instance, be configured with a queue for authorizing users to have Internet
access, etc).
http://www.bestpractical.com/rt
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gelinas
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response 407 of 480:
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Dec 27 02:26 UTC 2006 |
"There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza."
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cross
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response 408 of 480:
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Dec 27 02:36 UTC 2006 |
Isn't it Dear Eliza?
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cmcgee
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response 409 of 480:
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Dec 27 14:00 UTC 2006 |
Then fix it dear Jo-oe, dear Joe, dear Joe.
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ric
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response 410 of 480:
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Jan 3 19:00 UTC 2007 |
re 401 - the volunteers do so because they want to keep grex and mnet up, not
because it's charitable. M-Net has no volunteers doing any significant work
other than Rex, who kindly keeps the system running. The arbornet board has
had one meeting in the last 2 years. And you've filled out some paperwork.
I appreciate that, I really do. But I don't think those things make
arbornet's charitable mission worthwhile.
Free system access may have been a worthy charitable mission at one point,
but today? Hardly.
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rcurl
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response 411 of 480:
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Jan 3 19:06 UTC 2007 |
It is just one aspect of the bases for Grex's 501(c)3 tax exempt status - or
is that status also passe?
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cross
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response 412 of 480:
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Jan 3 19:15 UTC 2007 |
Regarding #410; I've offered to do systems stuff on m-net, but rex seems to
not want additional help.
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tod
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response 413 of 480:
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Jan 3 20:37 UTC 2007 |
re #412
Well yea, that's the major difference here is that Rex is recognized as the
SysAdmin by board appointment. Unlike Grex where leadership is ambiguous.
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cross
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response 414 of 480:
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Jan 3 23:39 UTC 2007 |
Yeah, that's cool. I'm just saying that it's not like he hasn't had offers
for additional help. Perhaps he doesn't need it, but peole who are like,
``m-net is so poor: they only have one sysadmin!'' are distorting the truth.
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cyklone
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response 415 of 480:
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Jan 4 00:04 UTC 2007 |
m-net also has no email, so it presents far fewer problems.
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naftee
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response 416 of 480:
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Jan 4 07:31 UTC 2007 |
rick moot
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cross
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response 417 of 480:
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Feb 27 01:47 UTC 2007 |
So it occurs to me that there's something we can do about spam: make email
opt-in and outsource spam filtering for those users who must use grex for
email. They can handle the cost of, e.g., using messagelabs.com's service.
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