According to this article in the NY Daily News, Con Edison won't reimburse for spoiled food in this case because the blackout wasn't their fault.

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We're continuing Anya.

Elena "The Quotable Buffy: She said that? When?" Aug 21, 2003 2:46:08 pm PDT

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Voting for the House Keeping Proposal is now open.

Eleven ballot questions?! WTF!?!

The last Buffy episode has been aired in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc., and some of our threads have become redundant. It's housecleaning time! To the extent possible, it's best to get this all out of the way now, before the US fall TV season begins.

In addition, we recently learned that our current usage is overloading our server. We are working on coding changes to improve this, so there's no need to panic and implement draconian cuts, but removing redundancies on our board will help the situation because more open threads usually leads to more posts, more pages loaded and more database usage. Think of our current situation as thread sprawl. Consolidating threads will be a bit like carpooling, allowing our system to operate more effectively.

The Ballot Is Here. It includes pros and cons for each question. Voting closes Tuesday night (August 26, 2003) at midnight (that would be "Board Time", i.e. PDT)

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Okay, I'm late with these, but here are the pictures from my quick trip down to San Diego and dinner with Cass and EpicTangent. Only 4 pictures, but now you can put faces to more Buffistas.

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LAistas, the lovely Deb just sent me a box full of baked goods, so I'm hoping people will join me on Thursday, the 28th, at 8:00 pm. to partake of them. If you are interested, and need directions, please email me at my profile address.

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I'm coming out to NY and surrouding environs and hopefully can meet plenty of Buffistas. In planning for that here's how things look.

Arrive in NYC evening on Sept 18th. Train to New Haven on Sept 19th (Morning) In New Haven 20th and 21st lecturing at Yale, but hopefully some time free in evenings. Train back to NYC on Monday the 22nd. Rent car and drive to Wellsville on Thursday the 25th. In Wellsville for wedding 26th and 27th. Drive back to NYC on Sunday the 28th. Fly back to Los Angeles on Oct. 2

So, I'm not sure who I'm actually near while I'm out there, and who has time, but I'd love to see people and am totally willing to make side trips. With the exception of the wedding and the lecturing at Yale the time is for me to do with as I please. Um, feel free to discuss in e-mail or in the F2F thread.

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Here are the results of the most recent vote:

1. We should close and archive The Buffista Corp thread as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 116 *
2
5

2. Post-deathmatch, the Buffy quotable thread should be closed and archived as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 112 *
7
4

3. We should close and archive the Firefly quotable thread as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 73*
37
13

4. We should close and archive the Previously thread as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 38
65 *
20

5. If item 4 as written does not pass, we should change the slug line of the Previously thread to reflect that it is a discussion of past episodes of Angel.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 108 *
2
11

6. We should consolidate Due South, Smallville and Farscape into a single thread, called something like Due South/Smallville/Farscape (exact thread name will be determined in the Bureaucracy thread).

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 55 *
29
39

7. We should close and archive Buffy Spoilage Lite as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 123 *
0
0

8. We should change the name of the Buffy/Angel Spoilers thread to "Angel Spoilers".

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 113 *
1
8

9. We should consolidate PPO, Bitchy Fic and the Bitches' Anthology into a single thread (exact thread name will be determined in the Bureaucracy thread).

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 85 *
6
32

10. We should close the F2F Planning thread until the next F2F goes into being planned and then reopen it to posts at that time.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 73 *
26
23

11. We should close and archive Angel Spoilage Lite as soon as technically possible.

YES:
NO:
NO PREFERENCE: 51 *
40
32

A total of 123 ballots were cast. Question number 7 may be the first time in recorded history that all Buffistas have been in agreement with each other.

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Laistas, Due to circumstances beyond my control (stupid tooth), I'm going to have to move the dessert party, featuring Deb's desserts, to Friday at 9:00. Please let me know at my profile address if you are interested in attending and need directions etc.

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DCistas, it's RenFaire time! I'll be going on Sept. 6...if you want to meet there, drop me a note. Profile addy is good.

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