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Oct 13, 2003, 5:05pm

How about a special newsgroup where Universe owners and caretakers can
discuss and inform each other about certain issues regarding the
Universe software, server and browser problems etc.? I already suggested
such a NG to AW but i never got a response. I think it would be a good
thing if Universe owners could communicate and share information instead
of everybody dealing with it on their own. Surely certain solutions for
encountered problems could be shared and support from AW would be more
efficient in a lot of ways if the information that is now send mostly by
e-mail is known to all Universe owners.

BCat
owner 3DWorlds Universe in the Netherlands

mail: bcat at 3dee.nl

Oct 13, 2003, 7:01pm

[View Quote] > How about a special newsgroup where Universe owners and caretakers can
> discuss and inform each other about certain issues regarding the
> Universe software, server and browser problems etc.? I already suggested
> such a NG to AW but i never got a response. I think it would be a good
> thing if Universe owners could communicate and share information instead
> of everybody dealing with it on their own. Surely certain solutions for
> encountered problems could be shared and support from AW would be more
> efficient in a lot of ways if the information that is now send mostly by
> e-mail is known to all Universe owners.
>
> BCat
> owner 3DWorlds Universe in the Netherlands
>
> mail: bcat at 3dee.nl

If there is a need, I can set up a group for that purpose on my news server.

--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Oct 13, 2003, 7:49pm

I personally see a need for it. I recently sent a request to the AW news
letter. I requested that they add my invitation to the AW community for my
Halloween event in Spiral Matrix. I personally feel that this did have
something to do with AW since it was an invitation to the community of AW,
but I guess they felt different. Here is the answer I got from them today:

Dear Imagine,

"I apologize for the delay in replying to you. Your request required
discussions with the management staff of AWI as we had not had a request to
advertise for an event in another universe before. We do wish you much
success on your Halloween event, however we do not feel that advertising in
the AW community newsletter would be appropriate. I apologize for any
inconvenience this may cause you.
Warm Regards,
Kellie Williams/Mountain Myst
Community Services"

I know that some universe owners want to keep their existence secret, and
that's fine, but what about the ones who welcome visitors from other
universes? Also, there are those citizens who would like to know where the
other universes are and what they are about before visiting them. I don't
have a mind set of my universe is better then their universe. I would like
to be able to explore any universe I want, have a place to gather info from
the other universes and a place to give info to the other universes. Right
now any info to do with other universes is nothing more then a word of mouth
game. And, the accuracy of that info depends on whose mouth that info is
coming out of.

I am not saying all this as any kind of advertisement for SM, and I don't
know if any of the universe owners would use a news group of this kind if it
is set up. But I do think it is worth trying it incase any of the universe
owners do find a need for it. And I know I would appreciate a place to be
able to advertise my events, if I decide to have another event, without
being bashed in the news groups for offering an invitation.

BTW why stop at a universal news group? Maybe some one out there who likes
to hop around between all the universes would be willing to start a
universal News letter? I think it stinks that I can't even give an invite to
the AW community in the AW community News letter.


Just my opinion on the subject :)

Imagine


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Oct 14, 2003, 7:56pm

[View Quote] > I personally see a need for it.
<snip>

I can't help you with the newsletter (not my expert field :) but I made an NG where nobody will complain about cross-universe topics:

news://news.andras.net/AW.Universe

Enjoy,

--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

Oct 14, 2003, 10:33pm

In article <3f8c711b$1 at server1.Activeworlds.com>, andras at andras.net
says...
[View Quote] The access to this NG should be limited to Universe owners because
otherwise more sensitive things e.g. about security, special tricks in
the settings, hackattempts etc. could not be posted or discussed.

Of course it wouldn't be bad to inform each other about certain events
that are taking place in eachothers Universes like Imagine suggests, it
would even be possible to synchronize events and to co-operate.

I'm sure not every Universe owner has the need for a special NG but i
for one would find it an advantage to have one. These postings are made
to find out what the other owners think about it.
Let's see what happens ;o)

BCat

PS if anyone wants to mail me about this you can reach me at:
bcat at 3dee.nl

Oct 15, 2003, 1:22pm

I did set up a private NG for universe owners. The readers/posters
have to log in into the ng with username/password which should be sent to
me, so I can set it up.
I host several such private ngs and it works so far.

Username shouldn't contain spaces (I don't know why!)
Password has to be at least 8 characters long, alphanumeric and punctuation
characters, non-dictionary based.


--
Andras
"It's MY computer" (tm Steve Gibson)

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