The Newsletters Page has finally been updated all the way up to February 2003. That’s three new issues to read through. But if you want the newest ones on the first Monday of every month, then you’re going to have to subscribe. To do so, just drop me an e-mail with your citizen name and e-mail address.
A minor note for current subscribers: This month’s newsletter will be delayed slightly until we can get an SW Pick for March written up! 🙂
No, this time it isn’t farcical. Although this news item sounds like it certainly well could be.
Over the weekend A!!CT world owner MrBruce asked for financial help on the AW Newsgroups and other nonsense and in return was rewarded with flames from several of his vocal and ignorant detractors.
Well, turns out it was back online again before Monday evening, but this time under the leadership of Whitestar. This is only the most recent in a long line of shut downs and restartings of the A!!CT world…
In other news Enzo makes a reappearance as the newsgroup moderator. But only because an indignant MrBruce called up the AWI offices and complained about its users. No word yet on if Enzo will decide to stay again.
That’s this week’s NG-Block.
Tourists can now officially enter Alpha World Prime, Active World’s massive building world. There was no official announcement out of the AWC camp, but speculation is that this move is a response to the outcry against the anti-tourism policies instituted by the government last year on January 3, 2002.
UPDATE: Another area of speculation suggests that tourist access was granted to AW Prime only so tourists could build at any of the various Columbia Memorials. In this case, tourist access is likely to last not more than a week. Still there is no official word as to the reason why.
UPDATE: Tourist access was turned off early this morning. The free reign was probably only granted for the day because of the Columbia disaster.
The Forum was down last night for several hours as our friends at my server provider upgraded the system. It was a routine system upgrade, which definitely seems to follow Comit’s mantra of “If it ain’t broke, improve it.” ^_^
Also, the white screen problem with the forum should be fixed for everyone.
Reason: Router Maintenance
Date: November 22, 2002
Time: 3 AM – 6 AM CST (UTC -6)
Benefit: Increased Network Stability
We will be performing router maintenance Friday November 22, 2002 between 3 AM and 6 AM CST (UTC -6).
Users will experience a brief outage (<10 minutes) during this maintenance window. Some latency may occur as traffic re-converges.
Thank you,
Steven Leggett
Tower Host