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Subject: 
It's awfully quiet in here
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Mon, 27 Feb 2006 19:33:52 GMT
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This is kind of eerie.  The final days of the MDP selection process has turned
the robotics board into a ghost town.  I expect a flurry of activity as soon as
everybody has officially learned their results.

One other possibility is that there are lots of people who are unable to post.
I thought I had been banned or something, because I went from being to post fine
to having my posts never authorized about a month ago.  Fortunately, I found a
thread on the administrative board that cleared things up for me:

http://news.lugnet.com/admin/general/?n=13314

Basically, the method of putting an "X" in the authorization e-mail and sending
the reply is not working for some of us (a lot?).  Instead we have to use the
link provided in the e-mail.  When I finally figured that out, I had 4 posts
still waiting for authorization!  It makes me wonder how many people have just
given up because they couldn't figure out why their posts weren't ever showing
up.

But, I think the current "eerie silence" is mostly due to the MDP process.  I
sure hope those who were chosen can make SOME public disclosures about what they
are doing, or the board could remain pretty quiet.

Mike



Message has 3 Replies:
  Re: It's awfully quiet in here
 
(...) At this point, I'm not sure if the process of getting people signed up is complete. (I don't even know if everyone has been contacted) However, I'm pretty sure you won't hear much about what the lucky 100 are doing for a couple months. Steve (18 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: It's awfully quiet in here
 
(...) Well, I'm mostly quiet because I'm just coming back from a set of robot games in Northern Indiana, where I was only able to enter two robots... and one of them didn't run at all due to a dead (& I mean DEAD) RCX. So anybody want to help out (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: It's awfully quiet in here
 
(...) Mike, Like Brian, I've been out of town. I typically post most often in technic, but I read robotics and have been posting here since being invited to be a MUP 2. I've been very busy documenting the programming language for the NXT to help the (...) (18 years ago, 27-Feb-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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