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Mar 19, 2001, 1:32pm

Please see my comments below:

[View Quote] Hmm...where to begin? First, get rid of the <meta name="generator"
content="Namo WebEditor v3.0"> tag on your pages. We don't need to see
what HTML editor you use. This also saves a very small amount of
bandwidth as well (people like Eep always hound on wasting bandwidth).
Second, get rid that blasted pop-up window. Also, there is an error with
it. You have: "Dont forget to the sign up for the Active-Worlds
Newsletter Now!!!" but it should read "Don't forget to sign up for the
Active Worlds Newsletter Now!!!" Third, on the Web Design page, there is
no "Contact" button to contact you like it says to do (there may indeed
be one, but at least I can't see one). Fourth, on the Resources page,
the link on the "Enter Now!" graphic works fine, but the text link above
it produces a 404 Not Found error. Fifth, add the City4All universe to
your Downloads section.

> I'm considering gettings a newsgroup set up for AW and the occasional off
> topic posts. So long as there are no flames. But would really attract you
> all to my site and become a regukar visiter?

No; no more new newsgroups. We already have enough of those as it is.
Your messageboard at http://www.coolboard.com/ is just fine.

You'll eventually get hits sooner or later. You could design the best,
most enthralling site on the Web, but if no one knows about it, no one
will visit it. It happens to everyone, even the best webmasters out
there. Just keep at it. Good luck.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Mar 19, 2001, 5:26pm

Welcome to the newsgroups, Leaf. ;o) Please do not post in HTML, though.
Many users dislike it as it wastes more bandwidth than posting in plain
text.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Apr 3, 2001, 10:34pm

How are the Stuff-X prices "bad"? Most of them are lower than
Activeworlds.com, Inc.'s yearly charge of $199 USD for personal world
servers. I admit the original prices I first had on the site were high,
but the current pricing on the website is fine in my opinion. Like
others have said in this newsgroup, if you don't or can't pay the price,
than go elsewhere. There are not many commercial Active Worlds hosting
companies that I have come across with pricing starting at under $10 USD
monthly.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 4, 2001, 6:50pm

Please see my comments below:

[View Quote] <snip>
> BTW I checked the trademark thingy and there isn`t any StuffX. . . .

"Stuff-X" nor "StuffX" are registered trademarks in the United States
Patent and Trademark Office. "ImaTowns" is not either. It is legal to
use the trademark symbol (TM) if you have not official registered it in
the United States Patent and Trademark Office. It is illegal to use the
registered symbol (R) next to it, however, if you have not official
registered it. Lanezeri's comments have nothing to do with trademark
infringement, but with copyright infringement. They are two totally
different things.

Builderz
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http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Apr 4, 2001, 8:35pm

It seems you forgot to quote the other telegram I sent to you just after
this one. I said something to the effect of: "What else is there to talk
about? Send me an e-mail at sawran at yahoo.com." Who said I "won't talk to
you?" I have tried my best to not make this into a flame war, but this
most recent post seems to make it even more of one. I have asked you
twice now to make modifications to the website, and in my view, it still
seems that there are some infringing areas that remain on your site. If
you did not infringe upon my copyright, then what do you have to worry
about if I contact your website hosting provider/company? I highly
suggest you read "Copyright Registration for Derivative Works" located
at http://www.loc.gov/copyright/circs/circ14.pdf.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 7, 2001, 5:02pm

Makaveli, I am very glad to see you support me and my company, but
please, there is no need for this fighting with J B E L L. I have
politely asked J B E L L to remove the "Stuff-W" page off of his
website, and he did, in a timely fashion. Yesterday we were talking and
in my opinion we seemed to patch things up between each other. The last
thing I want to do or want to happen is to initiate another fight with
him. Again, I thank you for your continued interest with Stuff-X,
Makaveli, but your attitude is not helping very much.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

P.S. I don't think we should be cross-posting all of the replies to both
the community and worldbuilders groups...

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Apr 7, 2001, 5:15pm

Just to clarify, Leaf, I never said I would "sue" you. I said: "there is
a very good chance I will seek legal action." "Legal action" has a few
different definitions. It could mean to consult a lawyer, send you
and/or your website hosting company a "cease and desist" letter composed
by a lawyer, OR to sue someone. The suing method is my very last resort
and I do not want to even look into it before exhausting all of my other
options. I've been thinking about this whole situation for quite some
time now, and I think I have reached a reasonable conclusion. I will
e-mail you more information this weekend about it, Leaf. And in case you
were wondering, it does NOT involve a lawyer.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 8, 2001, 1:20pm

I thought it was against at Home's Terms of Service to host ANY type of
server if you don't sign up for their at Work service...

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 9, 2001, 6:11pm

Its a US based cable/cable modem Internet Service Provider (ISP). Most
local cable companies "team up" with at Home and just put their name in
front of the at Home designation (for example, Comcast at Home,
RoadRunner at Home, etc). Look at http://www.home.com/qa.html for more
information. Its against their Terms of Service to host ANY type of
server if you have an account with them, yet many people still do and
haven't been caught yet.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 13, 2001, 2:09pm

Sorry to hear about your hard drive troubles, Jeiden. Unfortunately, I
don't know of any coordinates to any of your build sites. Although, I
may have a program that can help prevent your hard drive from doing this
again. It is called SpinRite and is made by Steve Gibson. More
information about it can be found here: http://grc.com/spinrite.htm.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 18, 2001, 8:55pm

Everything looks good, Andras, except for a few things. You say that you
should open UDP port 53 (DNS) if hosting a server, yet you may also need
to add it to the Active Worlds Browser to determine the auth server's IP
address as well as world object path IP addresses. Also, I have been
hosting several worlds for months now without ever needing to open any
UDP ports on admin.exe or winworld.exe (not even UDP port 53) and have
not encountered any problems.

There is one thing to note however about restricting port access in
ZoneAlarm Pro. Not all hosters use the 7000 - 7999 port range to host
their world servers on. If you cannot access a certain world, look in
the "Alerts" tab of ZoneAlarm Pro to see if a port was trying to
communicate with the Active Worlds Browser. You will see a message like:
"Active Worlds Browser was not allowed to connect to XXX." Add that port
in your Active Worlds Browser rule in ZoneAlarm Pro and you should then
be able to enter.

Finally, the settings on your page do not account for the use of the
built-in browser (Internet Explorer). You will probably need to add TCP
ports 1024 and up to be able to use the built-in web browser. Besides
these small flaws, I appreciate you creating that page to help fellow
firewall users of Active Worlds technology. If a newbie ever asks "How
do I configure AW to work with ZAP?", I can safely refer them to your
page and use my time saved trying to help them configure ZAP for better
things. :)

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 18, 2001, 10:36pm

Please see my comments below:

[View Quote] > To be honest I did not have the DNS prot open but I mentioned it just in case someone runs into it as a > problem. (My DNS server is actually on the local zone - I have my own DNS server)

You are correct. I forgot about users that have/run a local DNS server
such as yourself. *smacks himself* =)

> Strangely enough the built in browser connects through UDP port in the range of 2900-2999 (at least those > tests I made all fell within this range)

Hmm...I tested it and it started at around UDP port 2001. I think it
tries to use the first port not already in use to connect to a website,
which can vary on system to system. For example, if I just freshly
rebooted my system, it may try to connect on UDP port 1037 while someone
who has been doing heavy web surfing, downloading, etc. prior to using
the browser may connect at UDP port 3011.

> Thanks for the comments. With your "implicit" permission I used your correction's phrasing on the webpage :)

Although it'd be nice to have a link back to Stuff-X... (just kidding)
that is fine by me. =) Again, great work on the page and I hope it will
benefit many people.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Apr 18, 2001, 10:54pm

The reason at Home sent J B E L L a warning e-mail is because hosting ANY
type of server is against at Home's Terms of Service agreement. J B E L L
doesn't want to have his entire cable modem access revoked, so he is
complying with at Home and shutting down his servers. at Home probably wants
their users to sign up for their at Work service (in which you CAN host
servers), designed for businesses. The at Work service is more expensive
per month, so in turn, at Home (the company) makes more money. This isn't
entirely how it works, but it a simplified explanation.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 19, 2001, 6:43pm

Please see my comments below:

[View Quote] Then why did you ask "Why are they doing that?????????" if you can come
up with the answer yourself?

> but still even if they are using more bandwith why should they be doing that, its the same
> if someone has cabel and leaves napster on 24/7 its basicaly the same thing.

You are probably correct. I don't use at Home so I wouldn't know if
Napster or other similar peer-to-peer software would be considered a
"server."

> Bet they dont get napster users about that >:-) You people act like I dont know anything.

What people? Who said/acted like you don't know anything? You just asked
a question and I tried to answer it.

> WHATS WRONG WITH YOU especaly the people
> from StuffX and there stuff you guys have problems, one question How many of "your" bots do you sell
> Or how about how many worlds do you host? Do you even sell anything?

"The people" from Stuff-X are just myself and two bot developers. What
problems DO we have? Care to elaborate? Whatever other employees of
Stuff-X say or do are their own actions, not an official response from
Stuff-X itself. It is perfectly fine if you do or do not like me as a
person, yet bashing the entire Stuff-X name is unnecessary. Stuff-X
sells both bot and world hosting and plans to sell bots using Active
Worlds technology in a few months. How many bots do we host? Well, look
at the "Our Customers" section of our website, located at
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/#Customers. We currently host four bots and six
worlds.

> Who would bother? Cuz I know me and J B E L L would never use your stuff
> cuz it sucks.

Who would bother? Well, again, look at our current customers. If what
you say is true (your blunt comment about both you and J B E L L saying
Stuff-X's service "sucks"), could you please give one or more reasons as
to WHY it sucks? Just saying something sucks without giving a reason
does not help any. Do you experience lag in worlds we host? Do you think
our website should be changed somehow? If you or J B E L L would
expand/elaborate on this and give valid reasons as to why our service
may be lacking, we will look at those reasons try to improve our service
based upon your response.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Apr 20, 2001, 4:54pm

I know. That is why I said "If what you say is true" (stressing the if)
in my reply to Trekkerx's post.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 21, 2001, 2:18pm

I believe Datedman (also known as Dataman) owns Synergy Corporation
(http://www.synergycorp.com/), which provides Active Worlds hosting,
website design and hosting, domain hosting, CGI programming, and other
services.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 21, 2001, 12:10am

Having problems with Outlook Express, John (you posted the same message
twice)? :)

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

Apr 21, 2001, 9:40pm

I have installed it, used it, and have not had a great performance
increase. The system I installed it on has an AMD Non-Thunderbird Athlon
600 MHz with 256 MB of RAM. Similar to your experience, Tribes 2
actually performed SLOWER with Hare running than without it. My frames
per second dropped and missions took almost double the time to load. I
did not try to uninstall Hare, but if you remove it from your Startup
folder (or go into msconfig.exe, depending on which Windows version you
are using), you can stop it from loading each time you boot.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 22, 2001, 11:31am

Maybe Wing is waiting for a dual- or quad-Athlon motherboard to come
out... =)

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 27, 2001, 10:45pm

I remember distinctly back in 1996 that there were swarms of people from
Finland using Active Worlds. There were literally several people from
Finland always hanging around AW GZ. Whenever someone would say
"age/sex/place check," there would be at least a few replies from
Finnish people. I don't know where they all got to now, but I don't see
nearly as many Finnish people around now then when I did back then.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 30, 2001, 8:32pm

Yes, I agree with Wing on this.

Builderz
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http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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Apr 29, 2001, 12:31am

Yes, it HAS been like this for several months now. The last I heard was
from Wolf Hollow1 saying that the president of JKMT was having personal
problems. The rest is history. I used to host all of the bots for JKMT,
including Sado's BotTool and the DeerBot "animal bot" add-in. Have a
look at this awnews.com article:
http://www.awnews.com/article.php?s=117. It mentions JKMT. I too have no
idea what happened to the president of JKMT (n)or the company. I know
you did various avatar/object work for the JKMT world, Crow, but I would
consider JKMT to be "dead in the water" if I were you.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 8, 2001, 10:08pm

Although not on the AlphaWorld object path, go to
http://www.awcommunity.org/objects/animals.html and check out the "Calf"
and "Cow2" .zip files.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 14, 2001, 11:12pm

Next time, please post this in the "bots" newsgroup and not the
"community" newsgroup. Also, ditch the HTML and use just plain text.
Thank you.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 14, 2001, 5:30pm

You avatars look great for a first time attempt, Gamer. Next time,
though, please post this in the worldbuilders newsgroup and put a better
warning about the large attachments in the post's subject field/title.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 14, 2001, 10:48pm

I'm not Gamer. =)

Builderz
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May 14, 2001, 10:54pm

Didn't you already make a post asking about this on May 10 entitled
"Triva Bot...?" In the future, please use the "bots" newsgroups
regarding inquires about bots, not the "community" newsgroup. We have
different groups here for a reason you know. Thank you.

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 14, 2001, 11:04pm

N a y r, how many times are you going to post that Dreamland Park
picture? One newsgroup posting with it attached is enough. Do you think
by posting it multiple times that Dreamland Park's citizen count will
magically go up by one hundred users in a single day? So what if
Dreamland Park is dead? PeaceWorld is dead, I haven't been to that
American galaxy in ages, and I haven't seen more than five people
on-line simultaneously in the Active Worlds Eduverse either. I've been
to Dreamland Park in the past, as probably many others have as well when
they were exploring other universes. I've also been to that DJ world you
keep mentioning and was disappointed with it. It has probably changed by
now, but that's besides the point. People have gotten your message. If
they want to go visit Dreamland Park, they will either modify their
aworld.ini to its universe IP and port or download the Dreamland Park
browser at http://www.dreamlandpark.com/. In conclusion, stop posting
that blasted picture!

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 14, 2001, 11:18pm

You said the following today in a post entitled "oceancity OPEN!":

"if you would like to get email about oceancity once a month please
email birkin at ozemail.com.au and supply your email!"

Either everyone in the community newsgroup e-mailed you to receive a
copy of your newsletter or you just like to spam us all. I'm starting to
understand why Eep is often angry now...

Builderz
Stuff-X - Bot & World Hosting Services
http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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May 15, 2001, 8:33am

That skit was pretty darn funny. I liked the "Kenny Rodger's Jackass"
one better though (it aired a few weeks ago). =)

Builderz
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http://www.stuffx.com/aw/

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