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rcurl
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response 50 of 121:
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Jan 14 19:51 UTC 1995 |
I wasn't remarking about this as a matter of "bad form", but rather from
the standpoint of keeping people informed. I was going to ask in #74
whether the item was intended as input for the Newletter, or just for the
convenience of transmitting news "on line". And (Re #45) I didn't ask
about this in the Newsletter item, as I thought it was a more general
issue, since Item 74 may not have been intended to have any relation to
the Newsletter.
Announcements in agora appears at first thought to be the place to post
Grex news, but it is used for a lot more than that, starting with personal
inquiries to classifieds (which aren't supposed to be there anyway). I
think a Grex News Conference would be a good idea, so I suggest you
suggest it in an Item here, andyv. I think I prefer the
one-news-item-per-Item format, as it would be easier to keep the cf clean,
by retiring old News. This could be a news gathering place for the
Newsletter, too. I see no problem with the redundancy, as only a small
fraction of members read coop (I'll bet), and the intent of the
Newsletters is to convey information to members that aren't following
everything as closely as a few do. The Editor could also choose to either
edit the news item for the Newsletter, or ask the author to write
something more specifically for the Newsletter, etc: it would be a News
"scratchpad".
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carson
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response 51 of 121:
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Jan 14 20:01 UTC 1995 |
plus maybe a linking of Agora's announcement item.
soundss like a good idea to me! andyv, if you're worried about
FW-ing being a big overwhelming task, don't be. I'm willing
to help out!
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nephi
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response 52 of 121:
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Jan 21 07:41 UTC 1995 |
That really sounds like a great idea! I like the one item per Item format,
too.
It would also be a good idea if the FW of the history conf patrolled it
and saved all real news. (Is that the history conf or archive conf, or
what? I seem to have checked my mind at the door....)
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nephi
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response 53 of 121:
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Jan 21 07:43 UTC 1995 |
Nevermind... I just saw the conference creation log....
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popcorn
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response 54 of 121:
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Jan 21 22:38 UTC 1995 |
(Actually, there's a history *and* an archive conference.)
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sidhe
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response 55 of 121:
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Feb 1 21:30 UTC 1995 |
What is the exact difference between the two, if I may ask?
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popcorn
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response 56 of 121:
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Feb 2 07:47 UTC 1995 |
I believe the history conference is for talking about the history of
the world, the country, and of Grex, while the archive conference is
a place for linking neat items from other conferences.
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davel
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response 57 of 121:
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Feb 2 13:20 UTC 1995 |
In history, history is discussed - pretty much history of anything. In
archive, history - of Grex only - is preserved. Basically no similarity
at all. If I recall, there is at least one item in history discussing
Grex's origins - but it's *discussion*, not archived items from
the ghosts of Grex conferences past.
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remmers
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response 58 of 121:
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Feb 2 13:45 UTC 1995 |
Sometimes I do a mental doubletake at the suggestion that Grex even
*has* a history. It does, of course. But sometimes it seems like
only yesterday that a bunch of folks got together to talk about
organizing it.
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danr
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response 59 of 121:
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Feb 4 19:42 UTC 1995 |
Grex's history extends back beyond its creation, too. :)
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steve
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response 60 of 121:
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Feb 4 23:43 UTC 1995 |
Indeed. Back to June 1983, in one sense, and April 1975 in another
(June '83 for M-Net's birth, April '75 for Confer's).
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andyv
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response 61 of 121:
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Feb 5 03:42 UTC 1995 |
Is that history of Grex recorded anywhere? I would like to post a copy
in Grexnews.
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steve
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response 62 of 121:
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Feb 5 03:52 UTC 1995 |
In one sense, about half of all the history of both M-Net and Grex
is recorded--the conferecnes that lived on them.
The other half are the other non-ASCII dealings; M-Net probably has
much better records than we do for that type of thing.
We have very little on founders things I think. Marcus John and I
have notes, but we haven't gotten anything together formally. ...I can
see it now: the Ann Arbor Grex Library. ;-)
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popcorn
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response 63 of 121:
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Feb 5 05:09 UTC 1995 |
Someone said there's an item or two in the History conference that have
a summary of info about the founding of Grex. This might be what you're
looking for, Andy.
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remmers
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response 64 of 121:
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Feb 5 13:40 UTC 1995 |
Re #62: I have minutes of a few founders meetings and copies of email
that was sent around during the organizational effort.
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lsee
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response 65 of 121:
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Feb 5 21:27 UTC 1995 |
Would anyone be interested in setting up a Civil War conference on the Grex?
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mdw
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response 66 of 121:
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Feb 5 22:32 UTC 1995 |
Some of my early notes regarding grex's early pre-history are in
~mdw/split.
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scg
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response 67 of 121:
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Feb 5 22:43 UTC 1995 |
I think there's something on the history of Grex somewhere in Grex's Web
pages.
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rcurl
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response 68 of 121:
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Feb 6 06:56 UTC 1995 |
lsee, Item 9 is for conference proposals (if you care....;->).
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popcorn
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response 69 of 121:
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Feb 6 13:06 UTC 1995 |
(You can see Marcus's early Grex pre-history notes with the command:
!menumore /u/mdw/split/*
).
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popcorn
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response 70 of 121:
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Feb 6 13:50 UTC 1995 |
I'm *really* glad we didn't name the system Petunia.
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nephi
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response 71 of 121:
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Feb 6 13:58 UTC 1995 |
Wow! I just read all of that and found it to be very enlightening.
Whatta time capsule!
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andyv
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response 72 of 121:
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Feb 6 21:11 UTC 1995 |
Thanks Marcus and Valerie. Marcus, do you think it would be ok to
post those history notes as a story for grexnews cf? I'm going to read
them after this. Nephi seemed impressed and others would be too :-)
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lilmo
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response 73 of 121:
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Feb 6 23:12 UTC 1995 |
re #70: WHAT?!?!!??!!??
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lsee
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response 74 of 121:
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Feb 7 00:41 UTC 1995 |
mt myoffer still stands--anyone interested in the Civil War?
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