Hi all -- I like Ed am rarely at clinics (part of that is due to crowding) yet strongly support the EFN site. What other ISP supports command line and shell access? And it's a non-profit nad I like to support organizations that serve the community in this manner. Woody "Patrick R. Wade" wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 06, 2001 at 03:25:25PM -0700, larry a price wrote: > > > >Ok, I posted a snapshot of my current thinking to > > > >http://www.efn.org/~laprice > > > >now i'm going to the coast for a few days and won't be checking my email > >till monday. > > > >looking forward to seeing *all* sides of the issues talked about on this > >list. > > > > If the Premierelink site is problematic, we might also consider > using efn's public access room. efn's office closes at 18:00, so we > wouldn't be conflicting with open office hours, there is DSL, table space, > etc. The limitations are: > > 1. an efn volunteer would need to ride herd over the events; i often can't > make it THU nights due to my sign language class. Since there are several > efn volunteers active with the LUG, however, this can be covered > (bear in mind that if the site burns down or the business office subnet is > r00ted it'll be the efn volunteer's head on a platter). > > 2. efn's lease is due to run out in a year or so, so we may not be in this > building past that. Our search for a new space (in the event we leave here) > will attempt to provide for a public access room, but we won't know what > that's going to be like until it happens. > > 3. although you might think that big parking lot to the west of our building > is available for our use, the landlord doesn't see it that way. I haven't seen > parking enforcement after business hours, but if a lot of cars start showing > up after 18:00 for a LUG meeting, we might start seeing them towed away. > > Since supporting public use of the Internet and facilitating education about > information technology is what we keep that room for, there shouldn't be > any trouble getting efn to authorize its use. > > -- > :wq! > ? > ^X^C > ?
