and she grabbed response #500!

woohoo!

The Forbes open letter to the hacking community is in the internet conference hacking topic. It's getting too quiet around here! Hope folks come back out of the woodwork soon!

The Oscar nominatations are out and you can see them in the movies topic. Discuss.

Free PC? Don't laugh. A company's giving away PCs. Read about it in techbusiness

there is a catch....don't remember what it is but it was on the news last night!

but, Wolf, the first hit is always free...

It's at http://www.free-pc.com. It's not a joke, the "catch" is that you have to use it 5 hours a week and you have to view their commercials. But it's a Compaq, so it's a decent pc. And it's free. And how are they going to enforce this is anyone's guess.

Ray, please see projects conf.

Check out http://www.spring.net/capzeyez for details of the Spring's Saturday night webcast. This is a fun music show.

When (and how) did this come about?

I stayed up after Saturday Night Live one night and switched to channel 10. It was a pretty cool music show so I called in and asked them if they wante dto be webcast. Week after next I'll be on as co-host. they're plugging the Spring big time on their website and show. They were voted the top music show in Austin by the Chron, beating out even Austin City Limits. I more or less stubled in to it.

I know who they is...been watching on and off for five years or so...

cool beans!

We have yet to have the first call in from someone watching and listening on the web. I hope it happens this Saturday night.

Straw houses and cob houses. http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/read/home/2

Ray set up http://www.photobooth.com and, thanks to an alliance, there's some cool stuff there. Ever step in to one of those photo booths like at Amy's Ice Cream, you 'll find that and other photo booths around the country listed here. I'd like to do a "cyber" photo booth at SXSW. If I can only find the time and $$$. The domain name thespring.com is being sold to help pay some Spring bills and help keep us running, but keep the donations coming in, they really help. I'll be cohost weekend after this one on the Saturday Midnight live music program that we webcast along with Dean Truitt, the host. Tune in and call in!!!! http://www.spring.net/capzeyez will get you the call in phone number and details about this program. The call in number is 512-472-2255! Watch and listen on the web and call in!

The email I got from Dean Truitt: From: DaveSpice Organization: none today Sounds great!! I will get on some new links very soon. Let's look at the first Saturday in March as co-host. Does that work for you? We have to stay away from direct commercial-type references. For instance, pretty much we can't say action verbs - "come" "get" "look" etc... Just think of ways to get around those words. Thanks again, we'll talk to ya soon...

terry, i think it'd be neat to open up a conference for the paranormal (you know, e.t., esp, clairvoyance, etc.). it may bring some interesting people and theories. watcha think? (oh, and is there a way to alphabetize the conference list?)

Can we do this in the 'spirit' conference or is that too broad?

i think paranormal needs it's own conf. i considered spirit but that seems to be more religion based (whether it's buddhism, etc.). paranormal is something else alltogether. i'll host it until we find someone else willing. of course, i don't want it to become the satanists panel, because that isn't what the paranormal is about. wiccan is spirit stuff. but ghosts, aliens, etc. are more on the paranormal realm than spirit.

yes, Wolf, you can alphabetize your own list manually... I'll go look up the link to the right page shortly... as to your paranormal conf, would that include esotericism, too? (think we should call the conf paraspring ...)

guesso, don't know what that is though. (thanks in advance for helping me with the organization of the conference list)

click below, Wolfie, and you can re-organize 'em howsoever you wants... http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/changelist

since you are already setting up topics in there, Wolf, I guess you found your paranormal conf, http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/paraspring/all

yup, thanks *hug*

eerie, isn't it?

indeed!

and inspirit!

Way to go wolfie!

and here's the official announcement of the opening of Paraspring, a place to discuss the paranormal. see ya there!!

ok, the hyperlink will take you to an error screen, BUT, you can get to the conference by clicking on the hyperlink at the bottom of that screen *sorry*

and with the recent flash into 2036, you may just want to http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/paraspring/all/since/-1

t'anks.....

Bob Nagy and I will be co hosting the Capzeyez show this Saturday night at midnight on Channel 10 in Austin. Tune in and call in! Check out http://www.spring.net/capazeyez and also join the discussion in the capzeyez topics in the music and austin conferences. Call in and talk up the Spring, and get your friends to call in as well! Or email me your number and I'll call you from the show.

Everybody welcome Alexander as a host in the music conference!!! http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/music/all or, for those not registered, http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/browse/music/all

Watch out for Melissa, the virus. Details in the computer conference. This is the most virulent computer virus ever. Watch out for emails that say "Important message from xxx" It could send out a list of porn sites to 50 of your friends in your Outlook Email address list.

How's Melissa look like, Terry? Might be worth the trouble...

Excuse me, everybody, but Wer made me a HOST fer Pete's sake! Give him a talking to, please, for rushing me, and please also some host tell me something about hosting on the Spring - like what snacks, what drinks, and who not to seat with whom... I got no clue, but found some check boxes I now could twiddle around with, also it says "You're a host", and I got two new kool buttons - kill and retire, which is fine with me. Always wanted to tell 'em, and wanted to make it to retirement in more or less one piece, too!

don't seat me next to anyone...

Wer talked Alexander into hosting the music conference! (*guffaw*) Attaboy, wer!

hehe...now, back to you and your conference...

and, to everyone, I'm re-doing some of the web layouts on here, so if I do something you don't like, please let me know!!!

That's great! Can you you put the last 5 or 10 responses on the main spring page? (/var/www/docs/index.html is the main page) This is something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I know that the executable is in /usr/bbs/www/cgi-bin/restricted

I'll look and see...

Wow, you guys promote fast around here! "Put the last x responses" on index.html! MY name there with the stars! Oh, Wer, I'm not sure I like the "Post It!" button, should read "Submit!" because that's what we really want, right? (Hi Autumn! How are you?)

Amy needs help. See my email to you and to Ray, wer. She's a special person around here since she helped so much with the design and in getting the fan folks happening here. Anyone want to help put together a www.suzyamis.com site for fun? You could get help from the folks at drool, who already volunteered. That's amyloo@bluemarble.net . . . let's give her a hand! I asked if you or Ray would fix her account and do some other things for her.

Guten tag, Alexander!

ummm...I didn't get the e-mail, Terry... (I hope my mail isn't getting bounced again...) And, you're right, Alexander, all I want is for you to submit...*wink* (and a few others around here, I might add...)

I'll forward it again. Or better, here it is: Hi Terry. I don't seem to be able to get onto access with my old account. I wonder if you could re-instate me. Pick any password you like. And thanks again, for letting us keep our old P&P board archives there. I think they're rarely accessed but nice to have. Just let us know if you ever want to dump them. I wonder if you are still needing income and might be willing to let me use Spring for a guinea pig. I want to try out some web ad rep firms for a site at work, but university bureaucracy is so cumbersome about suppliers it's hard to just try people without bidding, and sometimes hard to fire them, too. (I don't know if you knew, I've been webmaster for the Indiana University Alumni Association for about a year now.) Anyway, I was thinking of auditioning two rep firms: Burst, which lets sites go on month-to-month contracts for a 50% commission; and FlyCast, the apparent leader, which requires a site or sites with at least 100k hits a month. If you would be willing to allow it, I would sign up for the services but have you sign the contracts. I'd do all the arrangements for ads for a period of six months without compensation. I just want to learn how it works. You'd also want to make the decisions, of course, about which of your Yapp conferences or the "free-hosted" sites you'd want to put ads on. Let me know. (I gave her a resounding "yes" answer to the query about the ad rep firms).

I'll grab a book and see what I can do...

terry, i did not get your email either. but i have a pretty long list of things i need to do for the spring and would be glad to offer my help. we really need to coordinate as to what specific tasks need to get done.

completely off topic... there's a new conf called today http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/today/all where I am attempting to gather all the today topics scattered throughout the other conferences... (omitting some conf's, of course...)

what, wer, you don't want to sit next to the ole wolfie? you know i don't bite! congrats to alex-hosting is kewl! hey, just a minute ago it was submit, now it's respond? well, which one is it wer? *wink*

oh, and wer, sweetie, couldja add paranormal today to your today conference? i tried but got an internal server error (whatever the heck that means)......thanks! *lick*

yep...

Best summation yet on the Melissa virus in either the software or computer conferences.

while confusion runs rampant elsewhere on the spring...

Hey Terry, everyone. Terry, I guess you e-mail was not reaching anybody that day last week; I never saw your "resounding yes". Still have a copy in your outbox? First, I guess you need to decide which conferences or site you want to put ads on, since the sign-up process needs specific URLs. This will be interesting.

Hey, Amy! What size ads/banners? Just asking because Terry will probably have me work with you on placing the ads...I know for certain you can put ads up in food, restaurant, porch, news, today, collecting, books, and music... when you sign up, use www.spring.net/yapp-bin/public/browse/ followed by conference name, in case you didn't know, so that they can verify the ads and such without being registered...

or, we could put up a store/banner page that we can link to from main and/or the index page...

and, how do the folks over in drool feel about ads and other stuff? I am always wondering how my changes are viewed by them...

wer, sent you e-mail. re: the conference /browse directories -- because lurkers overbalance posters, right. In a way it would be nice to only have ads for the lurkers, who don't contribute to the community by posting, but I don't guess there is a way to do that, since everybody sees the same Yapp header files.

wer, your Juno inbox is jammed.

you can get around that, but that would assume that all lurkers lurked through public instead of restricted...the headers can be set differently for each...sent you an e-mail with the usable e-mail address...

everyone go and check out the new Geo conference, headed up by...*drum roll*...Marcia! http://www.spring.net/yapp-bin/restricted/browse/Geo/all

John F. Kennedy Jr. is missing. He took off with his wife Caroline to attend a Kennedy family wedding last night in a small plane. Follow the events in news 30 and pray that JFK Jr. is ok.

Whether you like boxing or not, John Burnett (former boxer himself) gives an explanation of what the cornerman does that is gripping in it's details and insight. If you've ever wondered what goes on in the corner of boxing ring, this is the place to find out. A very, very good read.

In the web conference, a cool site where you can find *everything*, inclusind thousands of recipes. A site you will most like bookmark forever.

Help the Wild One bob win $1,000 in a contest. Vote for his idea at http://ssl.adhost.com/icomamerica/contest/contest.cfm See the topic in the radio conference.

Here's my intro to the newest topic in the news conference. Have you read about the scheme to market the eggs of drop-dead gorgeous babes on the web? Supermodel eggs! They ain't cheap, babe. The minimum bid one model set is $50 grand. What are the pros and cons of this? Is it ethical? Would you sell one of your eggs (sorry guys)? And if you would, what price do you think it would fetch? Do brains count at all? Or just looks? And what will the offspring be like? Will they pop outa the womb with silicon implants in place already? And capped teach and windblown hair? And what's the next logical step? Why, I'll answer that. A night with the supermodel herself. And, as someone says, will the supermodel babies grow up and sport bumper stickers on their cars that say: "My other Mom is a Supermodel"

Terry, this is sick. Brains had better count or we are well on our way to third world status. The mind is the most enticing and enchanting part of the human animal...we must not substitute fleeting beauty for long term character and intellect. This is insane!

Please comment on the poems of Dorothy, the newest topic in poetry. She says she'll post more poems if she gets feedback! So please give her some.

Off I go to do just that. Thanks for the reminder.

Thank you!

My pleasure! I hope she post more and more. Very interesting lady...!

I created a new topic in the Farm conference called Farm Net News, Karen Flaherty just sent her the first issue she sturggled to put together and I've got some comments on it and will be commenting more over the next few days. Even if you're not an old Farmie, some of the things the Farm did and are doing still are a fascinating bit of history. "I stayed at the Bionics Women's Cooperative and Guesthouse, which as room enough for a dozen people with a small kitchen and bathroom. Resting in the hammock out the back porch, I thought about the people I'd met, and while gazing at gorgeous views down the mountains to the ocean, coconut palms swaying as seabreeze brings the afteroon rain, I could hear a mucical mosaic of drums, reggae radio, children singing and strains of Cher's latest song" ".. if you beleive in love .. in love " .. It was a wonderful blend of the sounds and spirit that emanate from Dominica, and reinforced the sense of being in a special place at a time with great potential for preservation, before globalization gobbles it up." - Karen

By coincidence I added it to my hot list last night. I'll have to check!

Did you check it out?

I got inspired by a visit to http://www.girlson.com to add a few more tv shows $ 44 4 top tv actors 45 2 tv websites for listings and reviews 46 0 Buffy the Vampire Slayer 47 0 Charmed 48 0 Dawson's Creek 49 0 Dharma and Greg 50 0 ER 51 0 Friends I quote a few reviews from the fabulous girlson site. And I'm cogitating on ramping up the Spring's own http://www.tvreviewer.com. .

and when you have a minute, perhaps a crafts conference? *grin and hugs*

Oooh...Yes, Please!!!

Sure, I'm just rusty on conf creation.

Get the resident creative HTML-person to do it - we'll wait til he has time. Make Wolfie and Me the hosts (crafters?)

Y'know, the one who created Geo....

thanks!