From iamthecheeze at gmail.com Fri Mar 25 09:51:36 2011 From: iamthecheeze at gmail.com (S Myers) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:51:36 -0400 Subject: [Geeks] [Icehouse] Big wiki change In-Reply-To: References: <20110324103250.12418@web014.roc2.bluetie.com> <69BE41B496C7C091E5E7F62C@daisy.home> <19851.28224.409801.149770@fnord.io.com> <4D8B888F.9000203@ee0r.com> <3D425D1B-0099-4740-BB4B-F73C002C7A90@rcn.com> Message-ID: On Mar 24, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Karl von Laudermann wrote: >> On Mar 24, 2011, at 2:08 PM, Elliott C. Evans wrote: >> 1) Im concerned that other forums I frequent have already started >> to stagnate and see diminished use. Discussion forums seem to have >> been an aughties thing. What's next? > Fads come and go, and sometimes what's old is new again. I'm holding out > for Usenet to make a comeback. Or perhaps Gopher. I still host a telnet-based mud-like-thing on my home server. I gotta say, it's a lot easier to run older software these days. The old difficulty of holding 5megs in a student account on campus is such a non-issue now, ya know? Getting other people to join you in these revitalized spaces, and explaining to people how to use a terminal emulator, and convincing people to type in commands ... that can be a little more tricky =) I'm sorry, we've gotten off subject haven't we. I apologize. I'm posting this to the "geeks" list. wheee! Cheers! --Scott -- A pizza with the radius 'z' and thickness 'a' has the volume pi*z*z*a. From eeyore at ee0r.com Fri Mar 25 11:17:11 2011 From: eeyore at ee0r.com (Elliott C. Evans) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 10:17:11 -0500 Subject: [Geeks] Big wiki change In-Reply-To: References: <20110324103250.12418@web014.roc2.bluetie.com> <69BE41B496C7C091E5E7F62C@daisy.home> <19851.28224.409801.149770@fnord.io.com> <4D8B888F.9000203@ee0r.com> <3D425D1B-0099-4740-BB4B-F73C002C7A90@rcn.com> Message-ID: <4D8CB1F7.9020902@ee0r.com> S Myers wrote: > I'm sorry, we've gotten off subject haven't we. I apologize. > I'm posting this to the "geeks" list. wheee! Yeah. Whatever else disappears, I hope the Looneys keep the Geeks list up and running. -- Elliott C. "Eeyore" Evans eeyore at ee0r.com