[authorafrica] Re: Coming in...
- From: "Mulholland" <balloons_210a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <authorafrica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 19:40:52 +1000
Good evening Nyankami,
Thankyou for your message below.
I do hope and trust that you have solved your problems and have things again
under control.
When you are ready, I'm sure that people out of Africa will be eager to have
some kind of map indicating all the writers whereabouts in this great and
mysterious continent of yours.
Regards,
Ken Mulholland.
----- Original Message -----
From: Nyankami Atandi
To: authorafrica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 30 September 2005 5:59
Subject: [authorafrica] Coming in...
Dear friends,
salutations. I do sincerely hope that everyone's Ok and sitting pretty in
their respective stations. Well, I've been laying low owing to some pressing
matters that suddenly cropped up requiring my immediate and undivided
attention.
Before I took that excursion, the esteemed gentleman, Ken Mulholland, gave me
an extremely important assignment; sadly, to date I haven't been able to live
up to expectations. Due to the said diversion, my hands became somewhat tied. I
want to take this opportunity to profoundly apologize for any inconveniences
caused -and to anyone- though I do hope that K M'll bear with me.
Now, I did note A Isong's concern regarding our posts appearing at large
across the internet, which she was rather uncomfortable with. My dear friend,
it wasn't at all my intention when I suggested the listserve idea to subject
any of our team members to unwarranted embarrassments by having their private
concerns, told to us in confidence, get to be read elsewhere like pinups on a
public billboard by all and sundry. Isong, to you I convey my deepest
condolences for any grief this knowledge may've caused you.
As regards this listserve, Bruce, the AuthorMe site's technically an ISP
[Internet Service Protocol] server. This means that the site could be having
what's called a leased or dedicated line which thus essentially ensures that
the site could be accessed from any part of the globe, any time, by anyone. On
this basis, individual users can approach you to've their stand-alone computers
get connected to your server, via which backbone they get to've a gateway thru'
which they get to access the internet.
On a small scale, this means that like you can set up a network of, say, five
computers whose users get to be assigned addresses whose domain's the site's
URL [Uniform Resource Locator], i.e. bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxx, isong@xxxxxxxxxxxx or
bandit@xxxxxxxxxxxx, along the same lines can a listserver be created. On this
LAN [Local Area Network], Bruce can send an email to the other two and vice
versa, and possibly to the outside world, just as they can receive from the
same.
A listserver -say, authors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is primarily a database
having as its clients a list of addressees such that should a wire be posted to
that address, it gets to be bounced to all those addresses forming its
database; much the same process like when you Cc one post to twenty two others
whom you want to read the said post simultaneously, only that this time in the
'To:' field, you write authors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx But this time, the
server'll do the Cc.
So, all hope's not lost yet. Bruce, if you talk to an IT jomba, I am sure
that s/he could've that implemented, after which you could install firewalls to
deter anyone from trying to access, without authorization, the main server, as
well as prevent a repeat performance of what Anietie just expounded. This is
just my idea; maybe someone else could help by some other input[s] too.
As a parting shot, I want you all to know that I've greatly appreciated your
friendship perhaps more than you know. Thank you very much.
Let's Increase the Peace.
Nyankami.
PS: At night, if you look to the east you'll be able see Mars -it's the only
orange-reddish star visible in a clear, cloudless sky. You don't need any
special equipment per se. Nearly a year or two ago, it passed its closest
distance I think it's ever done in roughly our planet's lifetime. Beautiful
ball. Astronomy's such a wonderful field of learning.
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