Re: [opennic-discuss] new enthusiastic member!

"craig mcgee" <[email protected]> Tue, 19 Mar 2019 01:01:35 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.opennic.general
Message-ID <117401d4ddef$dc352660$6201a8c0@GM1000C1>
would be great if my joining is the cause of a new topic!

I might even get the honour of hosting it,
I have a website
my-question.co.uk
its a very odd conscept, my site, but think how many visitors I might get if 
say domainname.tld.my-question.co.uk was linked up!
all very exciting. just a thought i prob wont be that lucky ahah.
soon off to bed its 1 in the morning here.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:58 AM
Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] new enthusiastic member!


> Hi Craig,
>
> I know what you mean by fast moving IRC, but our
> channel tends to move as slow as emails. I think
> you'll be fine there most times. Actually, there
> is often a space of a few hours to a few days.
>
> Your idea is interesting. I think there was some
> talk about it, but I don't think anybody actually
> implemented it. Others could chime in on this,
> and a new topic started if there is more discussion.
>
> ~ Ole
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 00:45:24 -0000
> "craig mcgee" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> thank you for the welcome!
>>
>> Don't really use irc, as I find it pretty difficult to
>> keep up if there's a lot of chat back and forth, with the
>> screen reader, it's more a group chatting system isnt it
>> rather than something like skype or facebook where you
>> chat one on one in text?
>>
>> with emails I can more easily keep up, but if things are
>> too quiet here for a while I might brave irc.
>>
>> thinking about a system for none opennic users to access
>> opennic domains something like
>> domainname.tld.opennic.org
>> has this already been done or is there a reason why it
>> hasnt? take care
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: <[email protected]>
>> To: <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 12:39 AM
>> Subject: Re: [opennic-discuss] new enthusiastic member!
>>
>>
>> > Welcome Craig. And no there are no restrictions on the
>> > mailing list subjects, though it's mainly used for
>> > discussion regarding new TLDs and servers etc.
>> >
>> > For more trivial and faster moving discussion we tend
>> > to use IRC. We're on Freenode #opennic
>> >
>> > There is also a new OpenNIC channel on Discord, although
>> > there is not much chat there. In fact the level of chat
>> > on OpenNIC channels (including the mailing list) varies
>> > very much. There might not be an email here for a month,
>> > and then suddenly there's a whole flurry of emails about
>> > something. These last few months, IRC has been a little
>> > slow compared to past times, but you're welcome to go
>> > there and liven things up a little.
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> >        Ole Juul (vvande on IRC)
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 23:36:54 -0000
>> > "craig mcgee" <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hello all, my names Craig, and I looked over the
>> >> policies, but couldn't find anything forbidding this
>> >> kind of message, so I hope I'm not about to get in
>> >> trouble for violating a policy I haven't seen yet!
>> >>
>> >> I'm totally blind and very deaf myself, so don't go out
>> >> on my own, only go out with my support worker, who's
>> >> like a second mum to me. Recently heard about the
>> >> OpenNic project, about 2 or 3 weeks ago and finally
>> >> switched over to an opennic dns server! its like
>> >> opening a whole new internet, just knowing all the
>> >> tld's that I can now access is amazing!
>> >>
>> >> I'm very into decentralized stuff and crypto currency,
>> >> but have to be careful as far as earning money is
>> >> concerned, the benefits people [department for work and
>> >> pentions] basically social welfare, can get very nasty
>> >> about earning when your on benefit, and don't even get
>> >> me started on the tax forms urgh! so if I have to stop
>> >> with investing a little in crypto currencies, to see
>> >> if they grow, because the government don't like it, I
>> >> was thinking, what am I going to do now, stuck in most
>> >> of the time! But, Opennic has come to the rescue. I
>> >> don't know what stuff I can do on a voluntary basis,
>> >> I'm pretty technical, but no good at all with
>> >> programming, but have a super fast internet
>> >> connection, virgin media 350mbps, so well able to
>> >> handle a dns resolver if someone would help me set it
>> >> up? Also going to be very interested in things like
>> >> votes and discussions, sounds wright up my street,
>> >> looking at pros and cons for an idea and deciding if I
>> >> like it or not, also happy to become a moderator, if
>> >> the lists have moderation?
>> >>
>> >> Hoping also to make a lot of new friends in this
>> >> comunity!
>> >>
>> >> take care all
>> >> Craig
>> >
>> >
>>
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