Re: CRIT announcement

Forrest Bishop (forrestb@ix.netcom.com)
Thu, 14 Aug 1997 02:14:27 -0500 (CDT)


Hi Ping,

I did forward Elaine's announcement of CRIT to Extropians
a couple days ago. I am not sure what the list problem is, but
there have been other small problems in the past.
Welcome!

Forrest

Ping wrote:
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>Hi, Forrest.
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>I joined the "extropians" mailing list yesterday
>and proceeded to write up a brief message, which
>i have attached, to let people know that the CRIT
>mediator is up and that source code is available.
>
>However, i haven't yet got an echo of my message
>from the mailing list, and it hasn't appeared in
>the archives. Did you see the message go out?
>
>Do you have any idea whether there is some sort
>of intentional registration delay to prevent new
>members from spamming the group?
>
>If there is something not working with me
>sending messages to the list, i would very
>much appreciate if you could forward a copy
>of it. Thank you very much!
>
>
>Ping
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>Message-ID: <33F1A0BC.22992D00@foresight.org>
>Date: Wed, 13 Aug 1997 04:55:40 -0700
>From: Ka-Ping Yee <ping@foresight.org>
>Organization: Foresight Institute
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>Subject: CRIT Mediator
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>Hello, all!
>
>My name is Ka-Ping Yee. I've had an interest in nanotechnology
>and extropianism for a while, but only recently came to visit
>California and then attended Extro 3, after which i felt
>compelled to join this list for the fascinating conversation
>that goes on among Extropians.
>
>The weekend was an absolute blast. I offer my thanks to Max
>More for organizing the event and to everyone that was there
>for contributing to the energy, knowledge, and passion that
>filled the air.
>
>On Saturday night i was given the opportunity to present a
>little something that i've been working on: the "CRIT Mediator",
>a service that provides bidirectional, fine-grained linking
>so that you can annotate pages on the Web.
>
>As a follow-up to the presentation i would like to let all
>interested people know that you can try the service at
>
> http://crit.org/
>
>The source code for CRIT, in Perl 5, is also available at
>that site. Although it is not yet well documented, you can
>download the program, make a few changes to the configuration,
>and run your very own mediator if you wish. I'm hoping that
>distributing the source will let ideas flow and let people
>build on the work i've done, helping us reach Singularity by
>facilitating the evolution of knowledge.
>
>Have fun!!
>
>
>Ping
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