1. Creating a conference list 1.1 What is a conference list? A conference list is a list of your conferences! It's that simple. More precisely, it's a list of conferences that you regularly visit, together with information on how many unread topics and postings there are. 1.2 How do I create one? 1.2.1 From the web Click the link marked "Conference Index", at the top of the main page after you have logged in. This takes you to the master list of all the conferences on the Spring. Next to each conference name, you will see a description of that conference, together with a link which will allow you to add that conference to your list. For example, if you wanted to add the "Apps" conference to your list, you would click the "Add to Hotlist" link next to the "Apps" conference. 1.2.2 From telnet To add a conference to your conference list via the telnet interface, you must use the "cflist" command. It has the syntax: cflist add ... - add a conference to your list cflist delete ... - delete a conference from your list cflist show - view your conference list For example, if you wanted to add the "Apps" conference from telnet, you would type: cflist add Apps To check this had occurred, type: cflist show Noting that the Apps conference had appeared in your list. And that's it for creating a conference list.

How about what do I do once I can link via telnet? I've searched all the conferences and topics with "telnet" and "ftp" (I think:) and found some instructions on how to set up your software. Done. Now I can't remember where that was. The last part of the info says "when you get this far, we'll give you all kinds of help." Yes? TIA

There should be a telnet topic in this here porch conference... what are your specific questions? And, Welcome!

Your host will be www.spring.net Just enter your username and password. Then type 'bbs'. And follow the help menus. You'll use the commands 'n' for next and 'r' for either respond or read depending on where you are. 'b' lets you browse the topics. You may want to change your editor from vi to pico. Most folks don't like vi unless they're geeks.

i resemble that remark! VI RULES!!!

Ray is one of my all-time favorite geeks!

mine, too!

In fact, I whish he'd get over here and give me a short demo on vi or pico or setting up virtual domains or...

ooh, stop, you're turning me on!

as if!!!

Wow! Wonder if I should get myself a techoid dictionary... Say, Autumn, you into music geekismo, too? What happens if I say "quadrophony" and "Hertz"? Or "tube amp"?

How about "Dolby Surround Satellite System"? Or "Wow and Flutter Meter"?

And hello quimby! What dictionaries do you work with?

Quimby is into all things of a Firthian nature, I'm afraid. Would you venture there to pursue your conversation? You will most likely find her on topic 119.

I think Autumn must be going into overload.

Probably is now. Haven't heard from her since. Or it was her drinks in "...Conversation" in Screwed that did it...

If you start in on woofers and tweeters, I'm gonna be baying at the moon!

and then Wolf will hafta join in...

Shall I invite Terry's Fat Lady, too?

as if anyone needs my permission...

From Terry's discription, I think I'd better open the windows and doors for fresh air...*gasp*

Jeez, I'm just not used to getting a response. Online, that is. As Marcia says I do have certain interests but if I knew there was fun happening somewhere else I would've been there yesterday (metaphorically speaking). I'm fickle that way. Telnet is fast, but sometimes I miss the pretty colors. I may be a geek but I'm a girl geek. And to Alexander (what do you like to be called?): OED mostly. I'm in that stage of life where I like to go into things deeply (in touch with my masculinity, I guess.) I'm still stumbling around trying to read things; I came of age just after BBSs were The Thing. If anyone sees half-messages or wierd missives emanating from my sessions, kindly, you know, ignore them. That maybe all you ever see, of course, but don't say I didn't warn you. Now that I have the keys to the kingdom...

Telnet is tres weird, but I am keeping my hand in it so I can do other things with it, eventually. I just emailed a bunch of folks using pine. That is primitive, but I see Hawaii-on-Line has added a spell check to it. As far as I know, and I know Alexander pretty far, that is what he likes to be called...Alexander. (...and since when is it masculine to be deep?!) My dear, you will see the beginings of my words lopped off and the words which disappeared before I could proof them misspelled for the first few times. It is one of the "joys" of telnetting. Enjoy!

Sweetie, I didn't mean deep in the sense of emotionally/intellectually. Heavens to Betsy. I almost wandered off in another direction in my earlier post but I didn't want to start a whole nother thread about toy stores. I don't know ya'll well enough for that.

Oh, and I too am learning telnet for a variety of other things as well. It's so much fun, and I often think, I sure am glad I wasn't born 50 years ago. I like this brave new world.

I mean, 50 years before I _was_ born.

Yes...yes....we knew *smile*...I like this, too. I used to lament I could not buy enough books in myu lifetime to satisfy my quest for knowledge. Then someone came along and invented something so incredibly intellectually satisfying that I am the worst sort of addict. This is real life and the stuff accumulating around me in actuality is just a nusiance...well, almost =)....but if yould like to talk about the toys, my email works...just poke the blue name above my post and there I'll be. Would me most nterested in pursuing that line of thought!

A belated response; it seems the last one was lost to gremlins. My dear Marcia: I didn't mean deep in the intellectual sense. Heavens to Betsy!

should we start listing connations for deep?

and/or connotations...

...Not without floatation of some sort handy. I tend to get in deeper than planned and stuff both of my small feet into my little mouth...which is not easy thing to do.

Deep: extending far downward or inward from a surface; beyond the understanding of an average mind; resulting from or affecting one's innermost feelings; having one's thoughts fully occupied; being a sound produced by a relatively small frequency of vibrations. Connote away, please.

Not the OED but a good place to start.

As in I am in DEEP stuff if I get any deeper into this discussion of the depth of understanding the sonic principles of the low end of the auditory wavelengths...?

Well, my voice gets kinda low. Maybe we should take a poll on whose voices get predominately lower or higher, percentage-wise. Connotation A feeling, thought, idea, etc. associated in one's mind or imagination with someone or something specific. Doesn't that sound lovely?

......Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!!! It does indeed, and my mind is being *very specific...*grin*

I'm afraid I'm off topic. (always happens...) I myself don't know the first x things a new user should do. Are we actively trying to develop this?

Who knows. William...Help!!!!

But, I think it is where I help you put your bookmarks into a new version of Netscape which you have just downloaded and did not know how...and stuff like that. We just wandered far afield, as is our wont to do sometimes...*smiling sheepishly*

I know. I love wandering far afield. I'm trying to be a good citizen. But I always find myself rolling in the grass. Or the hay. Good thing I don't have allergies.

*not commenting*

William (if I may call you that): your silence speaks volumes, but the pages are blank. But maybe you're too busy giving people tiramisu. Understandable. Nice to know you're there. Edie Brickell lyric circa 1986 or so: Shove me in the shallow water before I get too deep. :-) Where is this Mike fella? Are we supposed to do this leaderless? Truth be told we could actually do it. Votes, anyone?

Unless it is something I know *very* well, I am not going to 'work' this conference as an expert. We have people with advanced degrees and years of experience in developing programs and graphics waiting to answer real questions. I am moving off of this topic so it can be used for its original purpose.

and I usually don't partake in any of the voting...

I was just being silly. I don't have the faintest notion, except what I didn't/don't know.

Whew! I am in over my head here. I am just afraid with the little bit about everything I know, I am going to mess up big time sometime, and that is one thing I will avoid at all costs. Well, almost all.

Probably you'll just help someone, like you said, bookmark etc. I hardly think you're gonna send them macro viruses in a weak moment. I cannot see you messing anyone up. You know a lot more than the average user.

And I just checked; I was right. Terry wouldn't have put to you the list of people to consult if you were in over your head. But maybe your pulling our legs.

[pops head through the door] hi everyone

Hey, Mike!

Might we invite you to take off your shoes and get comfortable here, Mike? Must you rush off so soon?

Hey Mike! We haven't met but there was all this romping going on in your room here, so I crashed the party. Did Terry tell you to come home before we trashed the joint?

*lol*

:-))