spring.net is here now

~terry Thu, Mar 12, 1998 (15:30) seed

We may become http://www.spring.net instead of spring.com any day now. If our domain name deal consummates. So now is a good time to start getting in the habit of typing spring.net instead of spring.com. If you get email here, it will change too. I can't guarantee all this will happen. But in case it does, you can start using http://www.spring.net now. And be sure to let folks know that your email has changed.

~terry Thu, Mar 12, 1998 (16:57) #1

If you guess the name correctly of the eventual buyer of the name spring.com I will send you $100 cash and a round trip plane ticket to Austin, Texas. Make as many guesses as you like. Only the first correct guess wins, no multiple winners.

~mikeg Thu, Mar 12, 1998 (22:58) #2

Woww...what a deal :)) That would be an amazing prize. Guess I have no chance, since I have no clue :) How about....Esther Dyson *wink*

~KitchenManager Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (00:03) #3

Mr. and/or Mrs. Spring

~autumn Fri, Mar 13, 1998 (16:50) #4

Mr. and/or Mrs. Net

~zx6rider Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (18:44) #5

The Slinky company? Irish Spring Soap company? A trampoline manufacturer? Sealy Posturepedic? McPherson Strut Shock Absorbers? I'm thinkin', I'm thinkin'.....

~KitchenManager Tue, Mar 17, 1998 (22:28) #6

Johnny Cochran?

~mikeg Sat, Jul 4, 1998 (17:50) #7

so did anyone ever win? and who did buy the spring.com domain?

~terry Sun, Jul 5, 1998 (06:00) #8

http://www.spring.com tells all. It's some nice English folks who run a human resource service.

~KitchenManager Fri, Oct 16, 1998 (16:21) #9

Somebody email terry@spring.net and jeffk@well.com Spring's acting goofy, I can't e-mail from here, and I smell a crash coming on...

~riette Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (01:16) #10

Perhaps Sonja's presence has bewitched it.

~terry Sat, Oct 17, 1998 (18:17) #11

Goofy in what way? We may be getting full on disk space. I need to compress and archive some logs.

~wolf Fri, Jun 25, 1999 (13:50) #12

terry: i went surfing on the welcome page for the spring and found that some of the links point to spring.com. i was wondering if anyone was working on that or if those links are no longer part of the spring.

~terry Fri, Jun 25, 1999 (20:28) #13

I need to do a global search and replace on that! Thanks, I was noticing that the other day also. I hope we can evolve into "team spring" with a great crew of web artists and content builders, William, Ray (ratthing), and others are pitching in. We can also use more talented volunteers to help with our site.

~wolf Fri, Jun 25, 1999 (20:57) #14

heard that!

~terry Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (06:33) #15

We need more organizaton! Any ideas on organization?

~KitchenManager Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (10:30) #16

let chaos and cacophony reign?

~wolf Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (18:55) #17

more organization?

~terry Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (22:25) #18

I was just speculating.

~KitchenManager Sat, Jun 26, 1999 (23:34) #19

as were we... organization such as? give us a few more specifics on what you have in mind...

~terry Mon, Jun 28, 1999 (09:47) #20

Well, I'd like to have some face to face meetings, at my place with an Austin group. I'd like to attract more Austin webbed type folks to our project. I'd like to use the projects conference more to co-ordinate projects and store documentation. There may be a huge project coming up which I'll talk about there. I'll work on eliciting more specific directions. Your ideas on getting tighter and more organized as a group. By the way, I was impressed at what the austen.com folks have done with their site, they have chat and their own homebrewed conferencing there now. But none of the other major austen.com websites is providing links to their site yet! Maybe it's to early in the game to promote it, but this site is doing well! It's hard to pull stats because the log file is so big and slow loading. I did a little work on bioregion.com this weekend. It's mostly just a bunch of links so far with one link to a discussion in the seldom visited environment conference.

~wolf Mon, Jun 28, 1999 (10:14) #21

are you firing us non-austin type folks? *grin*

~aschuth Mon, Jun 28, 1999 (10:23) #22

I guess he's trying to fire y'all up, though perhaps he might want to roast some, too. Autsch! Huh, that W A S hot, what was that for?

~KitchenManager Mon, Jun 28, 1999 (22:25) #23

I've got permission for "meets" at LI, although I'm working every night at the moment...some face to faces would be good...and of course we're not firing the non-Austin folks, it's just that those of us in Austin should communicate more! If I don't work a night next week, I'll call and let you know, Terry...

~terry Tue, Jun 29, 1999 (09:02) #24

Sounds great.

~wolf Tue, Jun 29, 1999 (10:14) #25

you poor poor wer! i'm glad the non-austinites aren't fired...

~KitchenManager Tue, Jun 29, 1999 (11:26) #26

me, too!

~wolf Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (04:28) #27

hey: www.austinites.com hmmm.....

~wolf Thu, Feb 7, 2036 (04:30) #28

it was taken, buuuutttttt, .net and .org are available...

~KitchenManager Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (14:54) #29

hey, everybody, Wolf found and available .org!!! she's on the prowl...

~MarciaH Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (15:06) #30

It would be even better if it were avaailable before Thu, Feb 7, 2036 !

~KitchenManager Thu, Jul 8, 1999 (15:24) #31

good point!

~riette Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (09:34) #32

Well, I'm sure we'll all still be sitting here, typing away when we're in our sixties.... At least then we'll actually have the TIME to do so, and not have to worry about dodging work!

~MarciaH Mon, Sep 20, 1999 (13:36) #33

...and screwing things up, as well?! I plan to be here at least that long. *grin*

~riette Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (02:32) #34

And screwing things!

~MarciaH Tue, Sep 21, 1999 (14:50) #35

Oh yes! I plan on it!

~riette Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (13:03) #36

Good for you! Make a stand!

~riette Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (13:04) #37

Or a handstand for that matter...

~MarciaH Wed, Sep 22, 1999 (15:26) #38

...never tried it that way, but I am willing to try almost anything....*smile*

~riette Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (04:08) #39

ooooooh!!!!

~MarciaH Thu, Sep 23, 1999 (14:05) #40

Hey, Life is like a book - might as well make it interesting...*grin*

~riette Fri, Sep 24, 1999 (02:59) #41

Yeah! Might as well lick the pages to make them turn over easier....

~MarciaH Sat, Sep 25, 1999 (18:20) #42

There you go! But, my life is being controlled by trolls and I must get some Troll-RAID and eradicate the little devils before they cost me more than they ever anticipated. I am worthy of the challenge, and if they think I was wimpish last time, they do not know that I have something much more important to fight for this time! Take a lickin' but no more tickin'!

~riette Mon, Sep 27, 1999 (02:46) #43

Well, nobody said you couldn't bite - and I say, go for the jugular!