Stephen Hart
2003-08-30 20:49:12 UTC
This probably follows from human beings having not yet quite
achieved perfection. ;-)
C> But, of course, with Linux we get as close to perfection as is possibleachieved perfection. ;-)
C> with our limited resource. ;-)
Some of us, yes, but not me. I seem to have lost my sense of
adventure, or something, and have only done enough RTFM to keep my
specific Linux applications running. So, I'm not really taking
advantage of all the Linux customization options.
I dunno? Most of my "computer adventure" seems to be a direct result
of having moved from OS/2 to Win98. I think it was only around a year
ago that I finally made the switch, but it sure seems longer. :-/
C> So were you serious about porting moosechat to alt.moose?
Well, I was serious eight months ago. A few people thought it was a
neat idea, providing we used a "manually run gateway" to definitely
block Internet spam or obscenity from the FidoNet echo.
...What did not materialize was any
benefit from doing so. For it to be worth doing, I thought that we
should find out if any former participants would return to MooseChat
if it was available via the alt.moose newsgroup. I knew you would
probably show up in MooseChat again, and I asked the folks still
posting if they were still in contact with people like Mike Jenkinson
and Jim Hansen.
The other detail that would need work is getting alt.moose configured
by groups.google.com. (Maintaining a "moose-like atmosphere" will be
much easier if the newsgroup is archived.)
Anyway, since you were one of the former MooseChat participants who
might use alt.noose, you got an almost automatic reply from me when
you finally reappeared. Unfortunately things may have changed...
I think MooseChat's "Saddam" first posted from your FidoNet node, so
you know that political satire was a large part of MooseChat, our
"Moose and Hoser 'Canadian Humor' Chat echo". After you left FidoNet
many of the "Saddam" and "George Bush" messages originated from my
node, but recent events in the Middle East have not been overly
amusing to me. As well, tolerance for political satire may be low
right now, which makes me wonder whether I'd want to be writing
anything much that would be "gated" to an Internet newsgroup.
Still, if the idea seems interesting to you, and you would actually
have time to participate in MooseChat either directly or via
alt.moose, I take another opinion poll in the echo. (I'm guessing
that, if recent events have started me wondering about posting humor
or political satire to a newsgroup, other people may have also had
second thoughts. Also, it would probably be a good idea to find out
how many MooseChat participants we have left, and whether it seems a
high enough number to keep a few conversational balls in the air.)
The groups.google.com part has another interesting benefit. If it was
set up to carry and archive alt.moose, my nefarious plan was to
establish a "good atmosphere" by taking the last few hundred MooseChat
messages and gating them to alt.moose over a few weeks. (I'd have to
"spoof" the dates, which might rule out some exchanges that are no
longer "current". I might also think about not gating the older
"Saddam" and "George" messages, but I'd certainly gate any fresh
messages in that exchange.)
Summing up; I _was_ serious, eight months ago. If it would be easier
for some former or present MooseChat participants to write messages,
and if those people will actually be writing, then I'm still serious
about gating MooseChat to alt.moose. (Assuming there is still a
positive consensus in the MooseChat echo.)
TTYL, ...Steve
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