re honouring each other

[Michael Dobbie]

hello all!
    just for the record (so my voice is somehow captured on this topic)...
    
    in all these years on the list (maybe 8 or 9 years now of mostly just
having to listen) i have not found this listserve and it's format to be
welcoming to me (easy to use) in a way that "invites" me to contribute much
at all, 
    i look forward to moving this list along (away from this cumbersome,
difficult to read boise listserve system) into something more ning-like (but
hopefully better),
    thank you all for your efforts and looking forward to more conversation
with you all, 
    michael (here in australia for the next 3 months if you're nearby and
want to meet up somewhere)
    
http://twitter.com/cuixote
 

Date:    Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:47:07 -0700
From:    Harold Shinsato <harold at shinsato.com>
Subject: Re: re honouring each other

Denise,

Just a quick note - "into deeper cyber realms" - is not what I would
think is the intent to improve things.

When things are improved - it should be easier, lighter, more
transparent.    YES!!! 

The "deeper cyber realms" sounds to me rather scary.
For many - and myself as well - the OSList is actually a bit forbidding.
Not just technologically. I was scared to post for years.

    Harold

Date:    Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:36:52 -0600
From:    Michael Herman <michael at michaelherman.com>
Subject: Re: re honouring each other

....We have been here for a long time, and it is difficult to move into a
new house.*      WHY?

murli nagasundaram is the guy who first invited us (here) to boise state,
and has been the nominal owner as far as the boise state list admin folks
are concerned.  my earliest observation in this thread, about the oslist
ownership, was just to point out that if boise state decided to change their
systems, we have no control at all over that.  for now, we are just lucky
that we have murli -- and also lucky that the admin guys like him/us well
enough that we've worked out an arrangement through which the admin guys
will to look after us, even if murli were to leave the uni.

so none of us really owns the oslist, and for the last 13 years, it is
working just fine.      for who ????????????  


to paraphrase ralph, the space doesn't care who owns it.  m
    SOME OF US DO CARE

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