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Jul 15, 1998, 12:37am

i've looked and haven't been able to find one but if it's not there how
about adding an option to save all out going telegrams so in case someone
replies to one days later we can remember what we asked?

Jul 15, 1998, 12:34pm

Maybe the telegram interface could be replaced with a mail interface, full
smtp and pop3 support to a telegram window in the aw browser. Installation
would be easy if you just insert Microsoft's output express into one of the
windows. Of coarse, not all mail readers are quite as friendly.

That would give us much more communication flexibility and allow us to
remain in the same environment. The browser can to the translation from
citizen name to aw mail address if need be although it would have to deal
with specific AW mail servers so the citizen name could be setup as the mail
address.

How about an in world mail reader. It wouldn't be hard to make a "mail sign"
that allows you to read your mail from within the world. I dare say you
could go as far as making a "send mail sign" as well so that you can send
mail from your world. I may be getting carried away here.

So we have a few new commands that can be put on any object that supports
text.

activate mailreader
activate newsgroupreader

Edward Sumerfield, esumerfd at msn.com
http://members.xoom.com/esumerfd

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Jul 15, 1998, 2:52pm

you're going over the top... Let us save telegrams, and maybe make the
text limit in them a bit longer, and I think most would be happy...

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Jul 16, 1998, 6:40pm

I agree I did get carried away but consider the amount of coding involved
with implementing the mail standard compared to implementing a proprietary
standard.

Most of the work is already done for you. There are hundreds of smtp and
pop3 controls on the market today that could easily be plugged into the
browser for retrieving "mail telegrams" for displaying.

Maybe phase one should just include the display of the mail in the chat
window like today's telegrams. With this expandable architecture in place it
wouldn't be hard to add a save feature or even putting the text onto a sign
object.

I believe in a direction that moves as much functionality into the 3d world
as possible. The future of this world experience is critical to its success.

Edward Sumerfield, esumerfd at msn.com
http://members.xoom.com/esumerfd

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Aug 4, 1998, 12:43pm

I know this is an old message, but I haven't been to the ng's in a while. ;-)
Well, since ActiveWorlds currently uses Internet Explorer for its default
browser (and yes, you can use Netscape externally), I don't see how hard it
would be for it to incorporate an IE-type mail system along with IE, or even add
a "lite" version of Outlook Express or Microsoft Exchange. It was a good idea,
getting carried away or not.

-Builderz

[View Quote] > I agree I did get carried away but consider the amount of coding involved
> with implementing the mail standard compared to implementing a proprietary
> standard.
>
> Most of the work is already done for you. There are hundreds of smtp and
> pop3 controls on the market today that could easily be plugged into the
> browser for retrieving "mail telegrams" for displaying.
>
> Maybe phase one should just include the display of the mail in the chat
> window like today's telegrams. With this expandable architecture in place it
> wouldn't be hard to add a save feature or even putting the text onto a sign
> object.
>
> I believe in a direction that moves as much functionality into the 3d world
> as possible. The future of this world experience is critical to its success.
>
> Edward Sumerfield, esumerfd at msn.com
> http://members.xoom.com/esumerfd
>
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