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Grex > Coop6 > #110: Name the Grex Newsletter |  |
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gregc
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response 75 of 152:
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Mar 9 01:52 UTC 1995 |
Brenner, why do you put all those spaces at the beginning of all your
responses? It wastes alot of screen real estate.
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ajax
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response 76 of 152:
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Mar 9 02:35 UTC 1995 |
Seems like just a way to differentiate responses from other people's.
I don't mind the style, though it could be annoying if it caught on or
were carried to extremes :).
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gregc
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response 77 of 152:
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Mar 9 03:08 UTC 1995 |
Oh, I don't know. What do you mean exactly?
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nephi
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response 78 of 152:
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Mar 9 05:50 UTC 1995 |
No one *here* would carry things out to extremes. 8*)
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brenner
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response 79 of 152:
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Mar 9 07:16 UTC 1995 |
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gregc
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response 80 of 152:
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Mar 9 08:15 UTC 1995 |
No, not disk space, I just don't like seeing alot of scrolling.
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srw
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response 81 of 152:
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Mar 9 08:16 UTC 1995 |
Not to *my* knowledge, but it wastes a lot of your effort for those
whose terminals don't wrap at 80, because they miss most of what you said.
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tsty
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response 82 of 152:
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Mar 9 09:45 UTC 1995 |
<<fw stomps feet and suggests a 3-blank-line max for the civilized
respondants.>>
BAck to the timber product ....
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popcorn
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response 83 of 152:
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Mar 9 14:07 UTC 1995 |
(You can also set your own item and response separators, Anita, if
you want to add spaces around the text you see. I agree that Grex's
defaults don't leave as much space between responses as I'd like -- and
I'm the one [with lots of committee input] who originally set them up.)
Now back to naming the newsletter....
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sidhe
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response 84 of 152:
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Mar 9 19:27 UTC 1995 |
I LIKE "Respond or Pass"
I'm somewhat fond of drift.
I *despise* the Fairwittness.
All the others I'm lukewarm about.
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rcurl
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response 85 of 152:
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Mar 9 19:50 UTC 1995 |
Well - let me gather all the suggestions (so I can list them to be sure
none were missed), and we'll ask remmers to set up a vote program. If
we set it up to vote for N out of M, and M is (about) 20, how big should
N be on the first round?
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gregc
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response 86 of 152:
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Mar 9 20:22 UTC 1995 |
5 sounds good. Weed it down from the 20 or 30 nominations to the 5 favorties
and then we can do a second round to pick the winner.
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eeyore
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response 87 of 152:
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Mar 9 22:21 UTC 1995 |
well, also see if there are some that get alot, vs getting one or two. konk
those out and go from there.
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chelsea
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response 88 of 152:
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Mar 9 22:45 UTC 1995 |
If this is to be decided by vote I'd like all users to be invited
to participate not just members.
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jep
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response 89 of 152:
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Mar 10 04:20 UTC 1995 |
I like /nev/dull, though that might better be used as a name for a
column than as the name for the magazine.
I think Grex should avoid a take-off on another publication (i.e.,
Whole Grex Review). The organization name Cyberspace already leads one to
assumptions of buzzwordism, and was, for that reason, in my opinion, a
mistake. (I thought so when it was adopted, but wasn't around enough to
argue against it. Sorry about that.) The newsletter should use a name
which uniquely identifies Grex, so that anyone seeing it will not fail to
identify it as Grex, and not something else or something generic.
I don't have any specific suggestions for names. I like "/nev/dull"
better than anything else I've seen so far, but it doesn't identify Grex
very clearly. Maybe something making "Grex" into an acronym, like "Grex
Report and Entertainment Xtravaganza". (Blech. That's bad. Something
catchier than that.)
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gregc
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response 90 of 152:
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Mar 10 06:03 UTC 1995 |
Call 1-900-761-3000 for great grex!
<gregc runs for cover.>
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tsty
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response 91 of 152:
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Mar 10 08:10 UTC 1995 |
<<gregc runs under the covers ... for the phone>>
It's rather appealing.
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robh
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response 92 of 152:
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Mar 10 11:40 UTC 1995 |
Careful, I had a help-seeker ask me a few days ago whether we
had an 800 number...
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popcorn
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response 93 of 152:
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Mar 10 13:36 UTC 1995 |
Re 88: Mary, I believe Rane specified earlier that everyone would
be able to vote for this, not just members.
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eeyore
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response 94 of 152:
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Mar 10 13:44 UTC 1995 |
good, because this would affect everybody, not just thoses paying dues.
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ajax
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response 95 of 152:
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Mar 10 14:54 UTC 1995 |
(well, so does everything members-only elections vote on....)
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lilmo
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response 96 of 152:
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Mar 10 15:12 UTC 1995 |
(hence, the proposal to report non-members' votes, even if they don't count.)
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popcorn
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response 97 of 152:
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Mar 10 15:23 UTC 1995 |
Re 93: I stand corrected: Rane did, indeed, say that only members would
vote on this.
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rcurl
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response 98 of 152:
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Mar 10 17:12 UTC 1995 |
Yes, I suggested that. I'm not stuck on it, but I would argue that a
Grex newsletter is a function *provided by the members*, as representing
the organization. It is only the members that ultimately decide how Grex
will be run (through electing board members, and voting on board and
member initiatives). Naming the newsletter, even if not the most important
issue for the members to consider, still seems to me to be a decision
to be made by the members. Its like deciding what your own name should
be - I don't think many people would give that up to a vote of the
public (or even the option of a judge). Are there any non-members following
this Item that would like to refute that argument?
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rcurl
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response 99 of 152:
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Mar 10 17:40 UTC 1995 |
I have created /u/rcurl/news.name with a list of the names suggested so
far. I omitted "vanity" names, names containing a TradeMark name, and
names that appeared to have been suggested only in jest. However please
review the list to confirm that I included all of the suggestions that
anyone wants included. Suggestions from non-members are welcome, whatever
decision is made about who votes.
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