[dvlug] Fwd: Is there a meeting at Cafe La Scala today?, etc. ...

[Dylan Reinhold]

Dead horse, I don't think it requires any more beating...

On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 4:44 PM, Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:

> Quoting Oleg (enanitoleg at gmail.com):
>
> > Since the number of attendees is so small and unreliable, I think it is
> > reasonable to ask that anyone who plans on going post on the website or
> > mailing list that they are planning to attend. If no one posts, the
> meeting
> > can be assumed to be cancelled.
>
> Another way of thinking of it is:  If you go there, there's a meeting.
> If two of you happen to go there, there's an even better meeting.  If
> three, it's a party.  ;->
>
> I'm thus not sure it would have been an 'unnecessary trip to Walnut
> Creek'.  I tend to follow Paul Krassner's dictum:  'If you don't like
> the news, make some of your own.'
>
> Personally, I tend to go to these sorts of things armed with a book or
> with a laptop computer so that, if it's just me after all, I'm not
> sitting there with just a coffee and sandwitch being bored.
>
> > For my part, I am happy to go even if there is only one other person
> > there.  I just want to avoid being the *only* person :).
>
> With a good book or a laptop, ending up being the only attendee need not
> be a big problem.  (My view, yours if you want it.)
>
>
> I should also post here that I was not absolutely certain about the
> dvlug.org domain being in expired status, though the 'whois' data
> suggested that was a strong possibility.  Part of my point is that
> domain registrars play games with the whois data on recently expired
> domains that make the 'Expiration Date' or similar field a bit difficult
> to correctly read.
>
> In any event, the thing that _did_ happen, of the authoritative DNS
> being suddenly and unexpectedly pointed to make the whole domain resolve
> to a 'parked domain' Web server, is at least _consistent_ with what many
> registrars do the moment a domain expires.
>
> However, it's also possible that Grant didn't pay the bill _not_ for the
> domain itself, but rather for bundled Web hosting -- and the registrar
> repointed the DNS for that reason rather than on account of domain
> expiration.  (If that is so, I'm sorry to have misstated the diagnosis,
> but the coincidence of the domain's anniversary having been a few days
> before that was difficult to ignore.)
>
> --
> Cheers,          I'm ashamed at how often I use a thesaurus.  I mean
> bashful.
> Rick Moen        Embarrassed!  Wait--humiliated.  Repentant.  Chagrined!
> Sh*t!
> rick at linuxmafia.com                                        -- @cinemasins
> McQ! (4x80)
>
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