[alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status

[Noel Bush]

Correction, o doctor.  We wouldn't return calls and emails from *you*.
You're well aware of why.  You're well aware that you ceased
corresponding with any degree of civility quite some time ago.  Do you
expect people to endlessly indulge your abuse?

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: "Dr. Richard S. Wallace" <drwallace@alicebot.org>
Reply-To: alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:37:00 -0700

>A big problem with Noel and Nika was non-communication.   They would not
>return emails or phone calls for months at a time.  I am not sure how to
>solve this problem easily for non-local people.
>
>Rich
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Anne Kootstra" <anne.kootstra@chello.nl>
>To: <alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com>
>Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 2:12 PM
>Subject: RE: [alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status
>
>
>> Do remember that the community is a global one. Therefor it would make
>sence
>> that the board should reflect that. Having boardmembers only from the Bay
>> area, whether or not they are qualified, should be considered a temporary
>> solution if at all.
>>
>> Nevertheless, since Silicon Valley does have some influence on what is hot
>> or not in the virtual world - I am happy that the community is being
>> noticed.
>>
>> --Anne
>>
>> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
>> Van: alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com
>> [mailto:alicebot-archcomm-admin@alice.sunlitsurf.com]Namens Dr. Richard
>> S. Wallace
>> Verzonden: donderdag 15 augustus 2002 22:40
>> Aan: alicebot-archcomm@alice.sunlitsurf.com
>> Onderwerp: Re: [alicebot-archcomm] alicebot.org server status
>>
>>
>> > > And another person - preferrable from your face-to-face community -
>> > > should handle all that linux stuff, thus being a kind of servermaster
>>
>> It is a remarkable blessing in my life that, during the past year, "two
>> worlds have merged."  I used to have the problem for many years that, I
>> lived one life inside my computer with all my ALICE friends, who were
>> numerous but scattered around the world, and another life here in Silicon
>> Valley, where there was a kind of parallel universe of history that didn't
>> seem to involve ALICE and AIML at all.
>>
>> This past year however I can barely walk out the door without someone
>> mentioning ALICE, bots, chatbots, program D, program E, and the rest of
>our
>> alphabet soup.  Now that the Internet Bubble has burst, Bot Fever has
>> gripped Silicon Valley at last.   Actual profitable companies here in the
>> Bay Area are touting AIML wares, asking me to lunch, and inviting me to
>> speak at conferences.  Even my friends from the parallel world are
>starting
>> to wonder what is up with this bot stuff, and how can they get a piece of
>> the action.
>>
>> Thanks to this blessed merging of two worlds, I now have the luxury for
>the
>> first time of recruiting Foundation volunteers from the local scene.   It
>> was amazing to have people come together from all over the world to
>> volunteer to work on ALICE and AIML.  But let's face it, we all know by
>now
>> that relationships cannot be built on e-mail alone.  There are too many
>> pitfalls and too many chances for misunderstandings.  We human robots
>still
>> need that face-to-face contact for some reason, even if we can't exactly
>say
>> why yet.
>>
>> A Board that can actually meet and look each other in the eye is vastly
>> preferable to one limited to email, IM chat and expensive long distance
>> phone calls.   Thank goodness AIML is now big enough that we've finally
>been
>> discovered by Silicon Valley.
>>
>> Rich
>>
>>
>>
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