msa community on-line presence

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Hi,

My dad has MSA, so, now that I actually have internet access, and more

importantly also have time time, I thought I'd hop on-line and research it some,

so that's how I found this mailing list. So I thought I'd say hi to everone and

I'll just kinda snoop around and explore in the background over here.

I'm one of those people.. you know.. computer people, who can stare at a screen

full of code for hours on end, and finds that entertaining. So anyway, one of

my interests is communications or collaboration types of applications. Common

examples would be chat rooms, e-mail servers, web servers.

So anyway I got bored one evening and I started thinking (that's always

dangerous) and well I have a small server that's got a relatively " small "

connection to the internet, but I was wondering if maybe I could put it to some

use for the MSA community. For example I could currently set up web server

accounts and POP e-mail accounts for people. Eventually I could even set up a

chat room or BBS or e-mail list software if anyone wanted to moderate it. (I'm

not a good moderator...) I know there are already a LOT of reliable and free

services out there (like Yahoo.) I guess one advantage to a using a free

service run by a private indivudal such as myself is that the service wouldn't

have those annoying advertisements and might be faster, (as long as it's

capacity isn't over-loaded) although depending on the individual running the

service it could always be less reliable than your services like Yahoo. Anyway,

without getting into a long technical discussion I was wondering if you all

thought there might be some demand or use in the MSA community for anything of

this sort? Please lemmie know -

-thanks

-Elliot