[THC] Bulletin board, exciting news

[L. A. Swihart]

Joe Yakamicki has made us this VERY cool bulletin board, and I'm canning 
the old website ASAP and we're using that bulletin board for... whatever 
we evolve it into being useful for.  It's a great tool, and will be a 
fantastic aid to communication for the people who re interested in 
communicating.

We may even eventually go over the BB only and lose the Mailman list, 
although I'm really liking the Mailman list and getting used to it right 
now. 

But the old website has gotta go.  I've been burned out and doing an 
somewhat notably shitty job of it for a year or more.  (Oops, pardon my 
language, don't let the kids read that.)  Joe's energy and applied 
talents are inspiring.  I believe that what he's doing is a real needed 
part of us growing as an club.

The BB is found at http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~jyakimic/phpBB2/
check it out.  It's a very standard format now, an open source tool that 
many of you have probably seen before.  You likely noticed that it 
resides on his Purdue career account space, and of course we all see the 
potential problem with that....  but we're going with it, and even if we 
had to migrate it there would probably not be much of a problem.

It is of course a totally separate utility and requires a separate login 
ID and password.... but if you know what you're doing those can be made 
the same as for the Mailman list. 

Check it out.

Linda
going now to re-direct the old website to the new BB! 

Oh, and a special offer -- if you want to have your Mailman password 
changed, and don't want to do it yourself.... I can/will do this for 
you.  It's trivially easy for me to do that.  As a list admin I cannot 
see or figure out your password, which is an important concept, but I 
can at any time change your password.  There are only 61 of us on that 
list, and if all 60 others asked for this it would still be a very 
quick, simple thing.  Just ask.  It would mean that I know your new 
password for a minute, but I will forget it quickly, and I would never 
abuse it.