Re: msa community on-line presence> Elliot

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Elliot,

Sorry that you had a need to find this group or information on MSA. I

am glad that you found us though. It wonderful that you are willing

to help all of us already. I don't know how to write servers but it

sounds interesting. I was majoring in computer information systems

before I became to sick to continue in college last year. I had just

signed up for a class on building web servers when I quit. I had

learned how to build a web page and that was it. Well, again I say

welcome and hopefully we will be able to help you also in some way.

God Bless,

Belinda

> 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