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Hi all, Odd thing happening - this seems to have bounced back to me twice. Please advise if this is a duplicate, or the first tiem you've recieved it. Thanks, mark ______FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS________ From: Peter Mortimer <ag500@chebucto.ns.ca> > >You may have noted a post made by the volunteer committee earlier this >week asking for "IP mentors". When the IP committee first talked about >this role we envisioned it as *one* way that we could develop a >relationship with IP organizations. I'm hoping to put together a small >group of volunteers who will take this task on. I'm not convinced, >however, that this will be enough. > >I also think that we have to develop a better product for IP's *and* the >infrastructure to support it. Specifically: > >1. PPP access >2. FTP capability >3. virtual domains - I realize that we can provide this now (and some of >the other items on this list) but I think we have to come up with a >better, more efficient way to market and implement this with IP's >4. multi email addresses for an IP >5. multi majordomo lists >6. a browser interface to check email etc... > >The IP committee has talked about a number of other features, but I >believe these are the ones seen as most valuable. > > >On Fri, 15 May 1998, Christopher Majka wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> This whole sad affair is (in my view) a canonical illustration of what >> Peter Mortimer has been saying about the CCN having (all too often) a >> relationship not with the IP but solely with an IP Editor. >> >> Here we have a case of an IP which, even after a 2.5 year trouble-free >> tenure at the CCN still had not sense of relationship with us at all. The >> administration of the organization have no connection with their ISP; the >> decision to move the site was taken ad-hoc by an ex-employee for reasons >> that no one in the organization seems even to have been acquainted with >> let alone remember now; and we only learn of the move after-the-fact by a >> short-term contracted employee badgering us to close the site down. It's a >> lamentable state of affairs. >> >> I'm not going to pretend I have an answer for how to avoid such things in >> the future. Clearly (however we do it) we need to build a relationship and >> a sense of partnership with our IPs. We need to involve them in ways that >> are more than arms-length. Our initial optimism at the CCN that a >> relationship with an IP Editor would necessarily mature into something >> more substantive were clearly (in some circumstances) overly optimistic. >> >> We (in the IP Committee) have talked about may specific improvements to >> the CCN interface and functionality. Clearly, however, these have to be >> set into a larger context of building a more comprehensive relationship. > > ---- > Peter Mortimer > Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada > ________________________________________________________________ Mark Rushton, Editor, Community Support & Development, Chebucto Community Network Mark@chebucto.ns.ca or via WWW: http://chebucto.ns.ca/~Mark/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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