The Birth of COMP_RULES
It was the break after the June 2004 Semester 4 exams. Everyone was wondering what to do ? Dr. Anil Seth who was our HOD at that time had put up a list of holiday projects to be done during the vacation. Me, Ralston and Alan volunteered to help with installing and testing LTSP4. We started off right away by installing Fedora on a PC and downloading the source code of LTSP and compiling it.
In between the installation and downloading we used to check our emails and send forwards to each other. Thats when this concept of mailing group caught our attention. Alan created an yahoo group by his name and asked us to join it just to test it out. One thing I liked about this group concept was that you just had to send an email to the group address and it went to all the members of the group. It would have been so nice if our class had a mail group. I wouldn't need to have everyone's email address in my address book. All the addresses in my address book were either wrong or they didn't exist.
So thats how we decided to make a group for our class. Ralston and me created a new yahoo user called comp_rules so that we could create a group with the same name. We didnt know that it was not necessary to create a new yahoo user to create a group. The password was 'computers'. The next step was to login as comp_rules and create a group called comp_rules. Thats when we realised that we could give any name for the group. We decided that it had to be a closed group and membership would have to be strictly through invitation only. Soon our group was up and running - comp_rules was born !
Much later we realised that unwittingly we had registered our group in the yahoo uk directory. Thats how the address came to be "comp_rules (at) yahoogroups (dot)co (dot)uk" [no spam]
We needed members for the group. So I donated some email ids of our classmates which i had in my address book at that time, and so did Alan and Ralston. Soon we invited a sizable portion of our class to join the group. But since we were in vacation at that time nobody bothered to check their mails. But once College began everyone started to checking their mails and joining comp_rules. The rest they say is history.
After that there was no looking back. Mails, polls, photos, files, important notices, question banks, syllabus copies..... and all sorts of forwards. COMP_RULES has played an important role in our class.
The name says it all ... COMP RULES !!!
Long Live comp_rules !
- Jessel
In between the installation and downloading we used to check our emails and send forwards to each other. Thats when this concept of mailing group caught our attention. Alan created an yahoo group by his name and asked us to join it just to test it out. One thing I liked about this group concept was that you just had to send an email to the group address and it went to all the members of the group. It would have been so nice if our class had a mail group. I wouldn't need to have everyone's email address in my address book. All the addresses in my address book were either wrong or they didn't exist.
So thats how we decided to make a group for our class. Ralston and me created a new yahoo user called comp_rules so that we could create a group with the same name. We didnt know that it was not necessary to create a new yahoo user to create a group. The password was 'computers'. The next step was to login as comp_rules and create a group called comp_rules. Thats when we realised that we could give any name for the group. We decided that it had to be a closed group and membership would have to be strictly through invitation only. Soon our group was up and running - comp_rules was born !
Much later we realised that unwittingly we had registered our group in the yahoo uk directory. Thats how the address came to be "comp_rules (at) yahoogroups (dot)co (dot)uk" [no spam]
We needed members for the group. So I donated some email ids of our classmates which i had in my address book at that time, and so did Alan and Ralston. Soon we invited a sizable portion of our class to join the group. But since we were in vacation at that time nobody bothered to check their mails. But once College began everyone started to checking their mails and joining comp_rules. The rest they say is history.
After that there was no looking back. Mails, polls, photos, files, important notices, question banks, syllabus copies..... and all sorts of forwards. COMP_RULES has played an important role in our class.
The name says it all ... COMP RULES !!!
Long Live comp_rules !
- Jessel
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