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For SpaceNut re #4200
Thank you for elevating a few more of our early members back from banned to InActive.
This is important work, because anyone from those early days would be discouraged if they came back to find themselves "banned".
They would not understand the "banned" state was a consequence of the emergency we faced with 20,000+ spammers infesting our forum.
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While we work to restore our founding members, we can begin thinking seriously about how we can rebuild the forum. Mr. Burk has given us a vote of confidence in two ways. First, he restored our forum when he could easily have let it go. Second, in an email about the new poster competition, I discovered an interesting title: New Mars Forums Mailer
I don't know if this email was created with that title just for us, or if it went out that way to others.
Either way, I see it as a signal that Mr. Burk still has faith in us.
We need to live up to our potential within the Mars Society structure.
We are currently operating with 3 active Admins, 1 Admin who is unavailable at the moment, and two regular members.
This is a stable situation upon which I believe we can build.
A key player is .... tata !!!! Our Senior Admin.
Are you able to take on the challenges of new members?
As we've discussed, we offer the potential of an online communications resource for Mars Society Chapters.
So far, except for RobertDyck and the gent who asked about a chapter in Alberta, we have no chapter activity that I know of.
We have attempted to reach out to the Mars Society chapter in Houston, but for whatever reason, nothing happened.
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For SpaceNut ... Last week you reported a mishap, and a week has gone by. I hope you're recovering. It sounded pretty serious.
Best wishes for recovery.
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For SpaceNut ...
Just FYI .... The User list revealed that one of our members logged in recently (after the outage) but did not post anything.
Perhaps others have done so as well.
We are not seeing responses from members to our request for contact following the recent outage.
Several members were given attention, but for whatever reason the outreach effort failed.
As one example, we noticed that Void was using the same encrypted email service as Calliban, so we cannot send contact emails. The encrypted email service politely notified us that it would not forward email. Void then changed his email address to one that is not encrypted, but we have not received confirmation that email is working.
I just sent test emails to RGClark. Perhaps we'll have better luck this time.
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We (forum) are fitted with a special forum to hold images. This Image Server is back in operation but not yet available for use. Inquiry ins in progress to see if we can restore that service.
Meanwhile, the "Lifeboat" site is available for image store if there is an immediate need.
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Thanks for the reach out to James for the web I spent a week with no energy at all being exhausted.master actions. I am doing better after the relief of pain for the double cheek landing. Spent this last week following exhaustion with no energy just falling asleep constantly but am now doing better.
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For SpaceNut re #4205
That was a serious setback! Thanks for news you are recovering, even if the process is slow.
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And! Thanks for supporting the outreach. We are almost back to whatever "normal" is, but the threat environment is still there, and we Admins need to be constantly on the watch and able to respond when necessary.
I remain hopeful we (this forum) can earn a place in the Mars Society structure. We were a significant asset at one time, but the best of those 20 years are past, and we have an opportunity to meet the needs of the Society to serve a younger membership.
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For SpaceNut re crossing 239000 ...
Despite the recent outage and resulting setback, the forum seems to be coming back to life ... We just crossed the 239000 milestone.
Void and RobertDyck have been making significant contributions, and RGClark is back asking interesting questions.
Void's report of an article about remarkable advance in wave power collection is worth your time. It should work for New Hampshire, and the objections from wealthy land owners should be less that is often seen with wind power. You can play a significant role by bringing this technology to the attention of State leadership. You would have to overcome the naysayers who exist in some parts of the US.
RobertDyck has embarked upon what looks to be a promising new Large Ship venture, with serious study of on-ship in-flight food production.
It occurs to me that the right place to prove out these ideas is in LEO, and a major agriculture industry entity would be a logical sponsor of a Large Ship designed for LEO agricultural experimentation. The ISS experiments are good, and so are the Chinese experiments, but a Large Ship with at least Mars level centripetal force would be a much more productive site for serious work.
The LEO Large Ship could be combined with culinary laboratories. The food industry might be a partner, along with media interests who are always looking for content that might be of interest to viewers.
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For SpaceNut ... things seem almost back to normal.
We only lost one ID ... 238404
Scan is complete through 239000.
The only detail left to finish is the password change for the Image Server.
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