Re: [geodesic 00045] Re: bit.listserv.geodesic linking?

[Bob Burkhardt]

The UB list was linked to bit.listserv.geodesic only very nominally.
When I did "reply all" a copy went to the newsgroup as well as Geodesic,
but not otherwise. And messages to the newsgroup never found their way
to Geodesic unless they were explicitly forwarded. The "Chinese
antique" message turned out to be spam, but there was an interesting
recent submission on Cloud Nines. It is a very inactive list mostly.
Spencer Hunter and Biagio di Carlo were memorable regular correspondents
in the past, but I think they are both now subscribed to this list. I
get a feed to the newsgroup through my ISP, intergate.com, which Mozilla
gracefully allows me to tap into. The contributions now seem mostly
random, but some regular traffic might create more interest and hold the
people who run into it randomly. Thanks for considering the connection
anyway. The "Chinese antique" submission brings up the concern that it
might be another route for spam. I'm amazed that the newsgroup gets as
little as it does.

Bob

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:50:52 -0700 Patrick Salsbury
<sals...@sculptors.com> writes:
>
> On Sep 24, 2008, at 9:59 AM, Robert W Burkhardt wrote:
>
> >
> > Patrick, how about linking us into bit.listserv.geodesic? I think
>
> > mostly
> > we would contribute to it rather than the other way around. The
>
> > last two
> > messages have the subject "Chinese antique". Could be relevant I
> > suppose.
> >
> > Bob
> >
>
> That does raise a good point. The UB list had been linked to
> the
> newsgroup, and that would have dropped when the list moved from
> their
> servers to mine.
>
> Does anyone here use that interface? I used to love Usenet
>
> newsgroups, but to be honest, I've not seen them used much in the
> past
> 10 years or so. If you are reading the Usenet group, where are you
>
> getting it from? I haven't seen an ISP offer it in years. Sadly,
> most
> users don't even know what it is.
>
> I'm not running NNTP services on my servers at the moment,
> so I'm not
> sure where I'd connect to for cross-posting (though Mailman does
> have
> an NNTP gateway feature, so it should be reasonably straightforward
> to
> configure.)
>
> Pat
>
>
--
Bob Burkhardt
http://www.freewebtown.com/bobwb/ts/synergetics/photos/

[Spencer W Hunter]

Bob Burkhardt <bob...@terra.es> wrote:

> It is a very inactive list mostly. Spencer Hunter and Biagio di
> Carlo were memorable regular correspondents in the past, but I think
> they are both now subscribed to this list.

No, I simply can't handle both work-related mail and listserves at
present; so I peek into the newsgroup as time permints. Thanks very
much, BTW, for cross-posting the tensegrity messages.

The architecture librarian where I work has noticed an increased
intrest in Fuller in the field recently. I quipped that this is
because the world is coming to an end, and Fuller's ideas (and those
in kind) are the only way out. She seemed to find that depressing for
some reason.

> I get a feed to the newsgroup through my ISP, intergate.com, which
> Mozilla gracefully allows me to tap into. The contributions now
> seem mostly random, but some regular traffic might create more
> interest and hold the people who run into it randomly. Thanks for
> considering the connection anyway. The "Chinese antique" submission
> brings up the concern that it might be another route for spam. I'm
> amazed that the newsgroup gets as little as it does.
>
> Bob

[etc.]
--
Spencer Hunter, Library Information Associate
gopher://www.u.arizona.edu:80/hGET%20/%7Eshunter
( http://www.u.arizona.edu/~shunter/ )

[Bob Burkhardt]

Perhaps it will comfort her to know it is just the 25th anniversary of
his death, or more importantly the big retrospective of his work at the
Whitney, and less importantly an affair with a New York woman that an
enterprising investigator of the Fuller Archives in Stanford found. But
maybe the end of the world is a factor too.

Spencer W Hunter wrote:
> The architecture librarian where I work has noticed an increased
> intrest in Fuller in the field recently. I quipped that this is
> because the world is coming to an end, and Fuller's ideas (and those
> in kind) are the only way out. She seemed to find that depressing for
> some reason.

--
Bob Burkhardt
http://www.freewebtown.com/bobwb/ts/synergetics/photos/