[authorafrica] Re: Coming in...
- From: chika onuoha <kaorama@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: authorafrica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 05:04:02 -0700 (PDT)
Hi Friends,
My deepest regards. Well, i do not think this will be
necessary now, maybe later when the need truly arises.
As i lay on my bed this morning, gazing into the
ceiling and pondering over this suggestion, i had
wondered what geography had got to do with
literature.I would suggest that we concentrate on
writing real good stuff for our customers all over the
world. Let's satisfy our customers first.
Chika Onuoha
--- Mulholland <balloons_210a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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