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todd,
sounds like you are doing your best which is all anyone can ask.
i was just hoping to make the point that despite tim's insistence
that lugnet 'belongs' to you and suzanne, it really belongs to
the community and those of us who support its existence.
i'd be happy to provide some pipes and servers if i feel like
i'm able to get more involved over time. if we want it to stay
available and continue to evolve and add features then we HAVE
to be willing to support it w/ werk and money.
but also, lugnet has to be willing to open up to that support.
as busy as you sound, it only reinforces my point that lugnet
needs more hands.
i've seen this kind of thing happen elsewhere, wherein a really
great site stalls because it evolves beyond the management
capacity of its original creators, and then loses its edge
because it doesn't continue to expand its features.
n e way,
all this is completely IMHO,
anyone else's thoughts?
thx much
-paul
In lugnet.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> I'm not as good at communication as I'd like to be, especially in the past
> four months (returning to having a day job), so there's always room for
> improvement. The main reason I bought a laptop recently is so I can stay
> more connected, and the second reason is so I can take my miscellaneous
> LUGNET work (daily and long-term) wherever I go (lunch, coffee shop, bus,
> train, etc.). For example, I'm composing this reply as I travel on Boston's
> green line trolly from Boston University on my way home. That gives me a
> good 30-45 minutes to stay in tune with what's going on during my morning
> and evening commute -- very little "dead time," especially since it's a
> subnotebook with super battery life.
>
> The biggest thing limiting my email communication right now (and going back
> farther than I'd like to admit) is having too many email accounts. I've got
> one at auczilla.com, one at fibblesnork.com, one here at javanet.com (my
> local ISP for home connectivity), one at work, three at lugnet.com, and my
> old mail is currently scattered across three computers (I made the mistake
> of not using a simple flat-text-file email package two years ago and haven't
> sat down and converted it yet). Right now for personal and LUGNET email I'm
> using Netscape for Linux on one box and Netscape for Windows on another box.
> Using either is painful. I use Pine at work and, being 100% keyboard based,
> I find that it totally rules for what I need it to do (be very fast). Pine
> is also what I use when I log in at lugnet.com and check my mail there, but
> the problem there (why mail often gets lost) is that it gets hundreds of
> spam and mailer-daemon bounce messages per day and filtering isn't perfect.
>
> The other day, I downloaded PC Pine for my laptop, but I'm having problems
> authenticating to my SMTP server at the moment. As soon as Matthew Miller
> releases the next version of BU Linux, I'll be putting that on my laptop and
> then I'll be in heaven. (I've had success in the past getting Pine to work
> with multiple inboxes and multiple SMTP servers under Linux.)
>
> So, to make a long story short, my plan for the next couple of months (which
> I'm about a third of the way into) is to gradually fold in all of my email
> accounts together and have them wind up at a single common location where
> I'll be able to see everything without having to go pick stuff up manually,
> which is error prone.
>
> But beyond that, even if I see a message, sometimes I just don't have time
> to respond to something in the depth that it deserves, and it gets set aside
> until I figure I have time to do so, or have thought about it enough to do
> so. Or sometimes I'll go back and acknowledge that I received it, and other
> times I'll forget and it piles up.
>
> Well, sorry for rambling...there's no simple answer. I'm trying. And with
> the wedding approaching, I'll be getting extra hard to get the attention of.
>
> --Todd
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