RE: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Dan Minette
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Charlie Bell Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2007 10:38 PM To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: ADMIN: Network outage On 24/01/2007, at 3:23 PM, Doug wrote: You may be disturbed to find this

Re: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Gwern Branwen
Charlie Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 24/01/2007, at 2:51 PM, Doug wrote: Any feeling of privacy we might get by not having an archive is a facade; email is not a very private medium. We've almost always been publicly archived here and I can't think of any problems the list or

Re: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Doug wrote: Charlie wrote: Given the nature of some of the discussions here, I'd be happier if the only archives were members' own mailboxes. Enough people have collections going way way back that anyone after a particular bit of writing could probably ask nicely for it. You could

Googling Re: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Charlie Bell wrote: On 24/01/2007, at 2:51 PM, Doug wrote: Any feeling of privacy we might get by not having an archive is a facade; email is not a very private medium. We've almost always been publicly archived here and I can't think of any problems the list or anyone subscribed to

Weekly Chat Reminder

2007-01-24 Thread William T Goodall
As Steve said, The Brin-L weekly chat has been a list tradition for over six years. Way back on 27 May, 1998, Marco Maisenhelder first set up a chatroom for the list, and on the next day, he established a weekly chat time. We've been through several servers, chat technologies, and even casts of

ADMIN: Dang phone company

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Arnett
Now they tell me that they can't support the level of service they installed... so they have to downgrade the connection... which takes one to three days. Un-friggin'-believable. List access will probably be uncertain until SBC removes its corporate head from its corporate... access point. Nick

RE: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Horn, John
On Behalf Of Julia Thompson In any case, e-mail can be subpoenaed, at least in the US. Don't say anything in e-mail that you wouldn't want read aloud in a court of law, is a good rule of thumb. Or on the front page of your local newspaper. That's another good rule of thumb these days.

Re: ADMIN: Dang phone company

2007-01-24 Thread Julia Thompson
Nick Arnett wrote: Now they tell me that they can't support the level of service they installed... so they have to downgrade the connection... which takes one to three days. Un-friggin'-believable. List access will probably be uncertain until SBC removes its corporate head from its

Re: ADMIN: Dang phone company

2007-01-24 Thread Nick Arnett
On 1/24/07, Julia Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, so they're STILL doing that? My friend had to move his ISP because they couldn't provide the level of service they promised they'd be able to get him at the location he started at. In 1995. Well... we did just move. Nick --

Re: ADMIN: Dang phone company

2007-01-24 Thread Charlie Bell
On 25/01/2007, at 4:24 PM, Nick Arnett wrote: My friend had to move his ISP because they couldn't provide the level of service they promised they'd be able to get him at the location he started at. In 1995. Well... we did just move. Move back! Move back! Charlie

Re: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Doug
Charlie wrote: That might be harder. Not impossible. I don't have any old brin-l stuff (thanks to my flatmate wiping *everything* off my old pc, including my backup drive, while i was travelling). But there should be a way to merge old archives to provide a complete record. That would be

Re: ADMIN: Network outage

2007-01-24 Thread Charlie Bell
On 25/01/2007, at 5:22 PM, Doug wrote: Charlie wrote: That might be harder. Not impossible. I don't have any old brin-l stuff (thanks to my flatmate wiping *everything* off my old pc, including my backup drive, while i was travelling). But there should be a way to merge old archives to