SCN: Re: SCN's web front page

[patrick]

Lorraine,

Please let me know what you are interested in and we can work
something out - this week.

Thanks,
Patrick
--- Lorraine Pozzi <femme2 at scn.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't know what's going on lately.  I do know that I offered
> to take over some of the tasks that NancyK had been doing 
> before she died and was given such an absurd runaround that 
> I finally decided it was pointless to volunteer.  Among other
> requirements - I had to speak directly with Nancy!
> 
> I am not surprised that SCN is hurting for cash.  In fact,
> when I saw the money plea, I thought I knew just how
> Dr. Lewinski felt when the Democratic Party asked for his
> check.  
> 
> Lorraine
> -------------------
> 
> 
> On Sun, 16 Sep 2001, Rod Clark wrote:
> 
> > Randy Groves wrote:
> > > 'rwrap' is NOT required.  It was suggested as a tool, to
> provide backup in
> > > case of errors - NOT required.
> > > 
> > > There have been NO restrictions imposed, either
> programmatically nor by
> > > policy that removes the ability to edit files with vi, pico,
> etc.
> > 
> > Randy, 
> > 
> >    That is not true, on both counts. The home page has total
> > no-write permissions for the members of the topics group, who if
> > your ststement were true would have write access to edit it with
> > pico or other text editors. But they do NOT have that access.
> > See for yourself:
> > 
> > 4 -r-xr-xr-x  1 guests   topics       3728 Aug 21 13:12
> index.html*
> > 
> >    The ONLY way that the home page can be updated is by using
> > rwrap. You are misleading everyone when you say this is
> > optional. 
> > 
> >    It is also now required by policy to use rwrap. I asked the
> > acting Executive Director on Thursday, "Will you remove rwrap so
> > that Patrick can update the home page?" The answer was "no."
> > 
> >    Because Patrick couldn't FTP the home page file last week
> > (because of the no-write permissions that block FTP), he asked
> > me for help with rwrap, which I tried to give him based on my
> > recollection of an earlier version of rwrap, but it wasn't
> > enough to get the page up. The page still isn't up. And this is
> > the actual, truthful reason. That is the answer to the question
> > that the three volunteers - Irene, Lee and Elaine - asked on
> > this list.
> > 
> >    Communicating with ourselves, and with all the volunteers, is
> > vitally important, and it can't be left to the PR efforts of
> > only a few people in top positions. You and I both were confused
> > about this, because of the lack of forthright communications
> > with volunteers about the situation. Content is being sacrificed
> > because technical considerations like this are being placed
> > first by a leadership with a too-stubborn technical focus. And
> > this is the future of SCN's site, and of SCN itself, before our
> > eyes.
> > 
> > Rod Clark
> > 
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