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Oct 22, 2000, 8:37pm

I myself enjoy it, as it makes it seem more real. I get sick and tired of
daylight all the time, and really, it doesn't make a whole helluva lot of a
deal when the backdrop changes, or even the fog settings. When your building
you are generally close enough to see objects anyway. True, fog makes it more
difficult to scout areas for potential problems, but really, how often do you
do that? Once a month at most? Also, it sets the tone for off-GZ
conversations (on-GZ conversations always suck no matter what). It makes for
photographic oppertunities if your the kind that likes to show off your
builds in JPG format (really, how eye-catching is a mansion where the wall
just suddenly stops? A mansion shrouded in fog looks much better.)



[View Quote] > the Backdrop changing for crying out loud in AlphaWorld. For the past few
> days you've been changing from fog to sunset to daylight to earth to etc.
> STOP it please as I am tired of it when trying to build, ok? PLEASE!

Oct 23, 2000, 6:00pm

These background images (varients on mountains) actually exist on the AW path already, but its quite
apparent that they can't decide whether we're on the ISS or another world. They used them at one point,
1-2 times each, then forgot about them.

[View Quote] > Yes, I too enjoy the realism it presents, but sometimes its not too realistic. For example, I was
> just standing there today and all of a sudden it went from the "night" Earth background all of a
> sudden to the orangeish-fog background. Maybe they could have 10 diff backgrounds in use, 5 for the
> sunrise and 5 for the sunset? Of course these would be displayed at like 1 hour interbvals in the
> morning and the evening (nothing really goes on during the day and night -- we don't have clouds or
> a sun yet) and it would be better than suddenly going from dark to light. Same should be done with
> the fog-- except it COULD be changed more often, we could have the fog "roll in" (or out) rather
> than just appear... maybe increase/decrease the fog every 5/10 minutes in the morning to add to the
> effect
>
> Also to add to the realism would be some cohearent backgrounds: All of a sudden going from a jpg of
> the Earth (which by the way is obviously not the right size to use as a background anyway) to a jpg
> of mountains -- did they grow overnight? Maybe a bad earthquake happened and shoved them up? I
> would hate to live in a world with that mahny earthquakes! Anyway there should be a theme, and
> stick with it. Make a simple image (the CORRECT SIZE) of mountains to use as a backdrop, then add
> day/night/sunrise/sunset stuff to it as needed, only changing the color of the mountains
> (light,dark, reddish, etc.) and of course maybe there could be a few extra backdrops for random
> occurances like fog, etc., but still use the mountains
>
> Or maybe an ocean in the distance? I don't care about that I was just using the mountains as an
> example... put it in a desert if you want (actually that wouldn't work -- green grass in the
> desert?)
>
> Ooh ok now I am going crazy... in the summer the tall mountains would need just barely snowy peaks
> while in the winter something more appropriate would be in order
>
> OK OK I will stop now goodnight!!!!
> _________________________
> John Viper -> loves mountains (especially when they are covered with snow and you can ski on them)
> http://www.jtsoft.net
>
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Oct 26, 2000, 8:35am

Eep's right believe it or not. This didn't need to be posted several times, and in non-relevant groups. If it weren't for Eep telling everyone the proper way to do things, everything would be f'ed up.

[View Quote] > Eep Shut up! This is a Community group for the AW Community.
> Community is like a family and ppl talk in communities. About all kinds of things.
> Places, events, good programs etc etc.
>
> And you! While giving orders, quit telling ppl formats for how they do things.
> You are so ignorant and disrespectful to and for anything you do.
> You constructive criticism is nonsensical, and degrading.
>
> Go back to your "Hole"
>
> TWIT
>
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Nov 4, 2000, 6:16pm

Ever notice that therapist iz spelled the same as the rapist? i mean,
when i saw yer email addy i freaked

[View Quote] > Therapy World will be open from 7 am VRT on the 4 November 2000.
>
> Therapy is a world in which health professionals voluntarily assist
> people to optimize their health status and their understanding of
> mental health. Anyone interested in counselling or therapy services is
> most welcome to visit the world.
>
> Web pages are available here that describe in detail the services that
> Therapy World has to offer the AW community.
>
>

Nov 5, 2000, 11:32am

It's an illness, prolonged exposure to 1MHz computers causes a lack of
understanding when the ill comes in contact with a computer user with a
large, mid to upper range system with an elaborate speaker system,
attatched devices such as microphones, scanners and printers, and a
strange cup-holder like device called a CD Drive. He will most likely
catch on when he has a fast Pentium Class system under his fingers, as
you can hardly manage Win3.1 on a 286 system. However, because he'll be
bridging a massive technology gap, increasing his processor speed about
a thousand times, adding some devices that he doesn't even know what
they are, such as a mouse, and giving him sole use of 128 megs of RAM
(as opposed to 512k), as well as introducing an OS such as WinMe or
Win98, he will probably just cuss a few times and give up. Also, quit
posting in HTML

[View Quote] > My brother came over the other day and I have been trying to get him
> to get a computer a real computer and not just the 286 they have now.
> Anyhow I showed him AWs all he had to say as I showed him all the fun
> was " but Mac it is not real" and the only thing I could say was that
> it is indeed real. I said just look at all the people and how they
> talk and play! how can you say it is not real? Look at my house and
> space station they are indeed real because if they were not real we
> could not see them and interact with them! He just kept looking at me
> as if I had some kind of problem and kept saying that it is not
> real. I said if it is not real how come people pay money for Avatars
> if they are not real! they pay with real money for a real product yet
> you think this is not real???? People pay real money for airplanes to
> fly on the computer yet you say it is not real? People buy many things
> on and with the computer and you say this is not real? People pay
> money to see naked people on the computer, people pay money to see
> naked people in magazines yet you say this is not real! I asked him
> what part of all of this does he not understand and he had no answer
> other then "it is on a computer and therefore it is not real". In the
> end I told him that he has had three wives and lived in the same house
> for 40 years were I have and still have one wife and have traveled the
> world and he says I live in a fake world!!! He needs to get a real
> computer and get onto AWs and check out the MENTAL HEALTH
> WORLD! Pastor Mac.
>
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Nov 14, 2000, 10:03am

I find that Frontpage sucks period and that Dreamweaver is a great tool for
the basics. You know, generic HTML website with some flash and maybe a few
java goodies stuck in. I personally use it for the beginning of my sites,
and then switch over to notepad. It's also a great tool for being lazy and
doing a cheap photo gallery for local viewing only. No glitz or glamor, just
tables and JPGs. That'd also make it pretty cool for doing help files since
you wanna keep them as low tech as possible.

[View Quote] > Ok, this is going out to all you budding website developers out there,
> since everyone seems to make the same mistakes (not just you, Anduin :))
>
> 1. Make sure the thing works in Netscape. If it works in Netscape, it'll
> work in IE, promise. If you truly want to reach the widest number of
> people possible, you'll make sure it works for the largest number of
> browsers. And by "making it work", I mean make sure the page operates
> exactly the same way in both browsers. If there's a frame in the middle
> when you look at it in IE, make sure that frame appears in Netscape as
> well. If the links change color in IE, make sure they change color in NS
> too. etc.
>
> 2. It would be wise for you to learn actual HTML coding, as opposed to
> simply creating the page in FrontPage or Dreamweaver or what-have-you.
> Trust me, you'll be able to do a *lot* more with your website if you
> know how the internal coding works, and you'll also be able to fix any
> problems easily by just going into the code and changing a tag or two.
>
> 3. While your at it, be sure to learn about the differences between IE
> and NS. (there are *plenty*) The basic rundown is IE lets you do more
> things, but it's not as robust and secure as NS. (This may change come
> NN6, tho) Sometimes making websites cross-browser compatible means
> writing two entirely different chunks of code to do the same things.
> Yea, it's a pain in the ass, but that's life in the web world. :-/ Just
> keep yer fingers crossed and *maybe* MS and NS will actually agree on
> something for once.
>
> Hope this helps you guys out :)
> --
> Goober King
> Real Men Use Notepad!
> rar1 at acsu.buffalo.edu

Nov 14, 2000, 10:07am

[View Quote] > BTW, I never found NS robust at all - not even on linux. Perhaps it's just
>me, but it crashes more times than my ISP !! ;(

Strange, i've never experienced a NN crash. My computer is very temperture
sensitive cuz i got some cheap RAM and a cheap CPU, and RAM errors grow
exponentially worse as the temperture approaches 123 degrees farenheit. I find
that Netscape will run well beyond that temperture barrier with no problems, but
IE and OE will crash on launch at 115 degrees. This means that if I wanna check
my second email thru outlook, it must be early morning or i hafta turn on this
big 32" fan i have pointed at the opened case.

Nov 15, 2000, 10:01am

Only reason I keep IE on my system is so I can actually perform file management
tasks. Once it's gone so is copy, moving, and various other important procedures.
Been there, done that.
[View Quote] > Still, it would behoove you to get both browsers. Just because Netscape
> is on your system doesn't mean you have to use it. (It won't bite,
> honest) That's really the only reason I still have IE on my comp, so I
> can actually see pages that were made by brainwashed IE users. ;P You
> can make the webpage in Notepad and look at it in NS to make sure it
> works, then you'll never have to open it again. How painless! :)
>
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Nov 15, 2000, 6:23pm

I KNOW it isn't required under 95, but on 98 it apparently is. I've uninstalled IE twice with the same results, and one of those was
when the system crashed in the middle of uninstall and I initially blamed that.

[View Quote] > IE isn't required for file management. I didn't have IE installed after installing Win95 and could do file management just fine.
>
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Nov 17, 2000, 9:48am

I had NN6 a while back, and HATED it. It was ugly, rarely loaded, and was
incredibly slow and crashed a TON. That is, assuming NN6 is still the java-based
beta version that I tried. I'm sticking to NC4.75 and IE5.5 until somthing clearly
better comes along.

[View Quote] > It's not that NS has any gaps in it... it's just that, at the time, NS
> didn't want to risk putting in any complex HTML features that might
> crash the browser, or worse. (as some IE-recognized commands can do on
> not-so-great systems) However it seems that with NN6, they'll be
> ditching that philosophy for the most part. Of course, never having used
> it, I can only speculate based on rumors. Perhaps someone who has NN6
> could give us a good comparison between that and IE? :)
>
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Nov 16, 2000, 10:17pm

72 or less seems to work pretty well

[View Quote] > Well thank you all for your opinions. I will stop posting in HTML.
> BTW Eep, since you seem to me Mr.Suggestion, what should I wrap text at? Its
> currently set at 76.
>
> --
> - Tony56 (aka Chandler56)
> "Freedom: That's What The Government Wants You To Believe!"
> ____________________________________________________________
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Nov 19, 2000, 11:02am

Either chill or leave, take your pick. He only says things are off topic
when they are, which they frequently have been since you arrived. Now I
quote the lame community charter at the top of this group...
"News.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup is for anyone who is
interested in AW and who can follow Usenet newsgroup netiquette, basic
rules of polite human interaction" Granted, this group isn't moderated
anymore, but I don't think cussing people out follows basic rules of
polite human interaction. This may sound a little eep-like but congrats
on the filter.

--
Wing

[View Quote] > EEEP WOULKD YOU STOP THIS YOURE ALWAYS TALKING ABOUT HOW THINGS ARE
> OFF TOPIC HOW IS IT THAT YOU ALWAYS SEEM TO TURN EVERY THREAD INTO
> EVERYONE FUCKING CUSSING YOU OUT????
>
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Nov 20, 2000, 9:53am

$20 for a floppy is outrageous no matter whats on it (outside of government
secrets). A CDR with a label and install program might be worth $5. This may be
AW, but we're not as nuts as we appear.

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Nov 19, 2000, 11:06am

Most likely some idiot decided to secure a few million square coords of
land with a bot *shrug* go figure.

[View Quote] > AlphaWorld (aw) is closed for bots... Any idea why (going same way as
> Atlantis ?????) ?????
>
> XelaG

Nov 20, 2000, 6:56pm

Especially if you're going to use no caps, and an elipse instead of
every other punctuation mark. This might actually be useful to some of
us, but we wouldn't know because you're too lazy to explain Now if
you're shift key is broken, then I don't have much beef with you, except
it obviously isn't because parentheses were used. Derek, basically what
I'm saying is that if you're not going to communicate clearly and
COMPLETELY then don't even try it.


[View Quote] > It's bad enough you plug almost every single feature of your site, but
> MUST you plug each feature in separate posts? I see at least two posts
> from you every day, and at least one thread that you've started. This
> isn't a social newsgroup or anything, just plug, assist, read, and
> go. Nornny
>
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Nov 21, 2000, 6:52pm

Okay, a few observations here.
First, HOW THE HECK TO YOU KEEP COMING UNFILTERED? Second, GRAMMAR.
Third, Xelag is a respected bot developer and doesn't annoy the shit out
of us. Fourth, Xelag doesn't update all that often (even though it may
seem like it because the bot's version number is carried out to six
decimals or so). Fifth, the Xelagot is basically the standard scriptable
bot.

[View Quote] > im not trying to piss no one off. i mean should all of you gang up on
> xelag when he p[osts an update? im not talking about posting something
> EVERY day and if youve got the thread ignored you wont get none of the
> messages anyway will you?
>
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Nov 21, 2000, 11:38pm

I have it applied to all the groups, weird

[View Quote] > I think filters apply only to a single ng? I dunno.
>
> -Myrth
>
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Nov 22, 2000, 10:02am

Don't "please" us. We know what we can and cannot say without getting
bit. You on the other hand are consistantly stepping in dangerous
territory. I haven't seen you make one post that either wasn't
senseless, WRONG, or in the WRONG place.

[View Quote] > lol please dont point out names like that youll just get him bitchin
> at you
>
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Nov 22, 2000, 6:42pm

We learned from our mistakes, you haven't yet. I swear, theres gotta be
some kinda bug with Netscape that prevents me from filtering this idiot.
Or maybe he's not as dumb as he seems and sits here all day with nothing
better to do than mess with my comp all day. Doubt it cuz I haven't
added another EXE that I didn't take off of a CD in a LONG time (AW
updates excepted)

[View Quote] > then maybe you should do what you told me to do download the messages
> and READ
>
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Nov 26, 2000, 12:41pm

I was just wondering if anyone was having the same problem shutting you
up. And most likely, you'd be the first one to post every time you
filtered someone.

[View Quote] > would you keep your filtering problems off the ng please? no one wnats
> to hear and no one cares whos on your filter list. do you see me
> adding a message evry time i filter somoene? NO
>
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Nov 20, 2000, 6:50pm

Ummmmm strange, I don't see any difference. Are any other colors different? If
so, someone probably played with your monitor controls or somthing.

[View Quote] > I have noticed that my intersections are now a funny brown color and the
> curbing has an extra white shadow line... just plain bad looking now! I went
> to the object yard and they are the same there also therefore can someone
> comment on what is going on or what have I missed about a change?
>
> Thank you
>
> Mac / Fatts
> mac4tbh at hotmail.com

Nov 24, 2000, 12:56pm

there are 3 ways that your property could have been deleted by this unknown
person. The first, is that they somehow got your PPW. Whether they're a close
friend or mortal enemy it doesn't matter. The second, is that they are the world
owner, or assumed the rights of that person. This means they either had the PPW,
or real password of the world owner, or was the world owner. The third is that
they had eminent domain rights in the world, by being assigned them by the world
owner or someone on the world owner's privlidges, or were on the privlidges of
someone who has those rights. Either way, your stuff's gone, and you're out of
luck

[View Quote] > At the end of the first week of November I found parts missing from my
> building, a round two story glass house with a space port on the roof!
> Anyhow I replaces the main parts and assumed it was a program problem but
> still it seemed strange that it was so selective.
>
> On november 12 I returned and found a person all in black and no name being
> displayed inside my place, I was up in the air so he did not see me. I could
> see that lots of stuff was gone but I did not see it being removed. He came
> out and then changed from the black shadow into a normal avatar and this
> time with the name JAIME and as I got closer he then saw me but nor knowing
> I saw the change.
>
> He came up to me and beat his chest like Tarzan and took off across the land
> and all the time I could not get a reply from him. I have not replaced all
> the missing stuff for two reasons, one being that there was to much gone and
> the other is I asked about this on their forum and not a single reply have I
> got.
>
> Has anyone ever had this happen? is this something to do with a cracked
> program? I am a CIT so who could delete my stuff other then the program
> owner
> and maybe helpers yes?
>
> Any comments would be of interest on this problem.
>
> Also to top this off on Vectorscape I finaly got around to build and the
> next
> thing I know they change everthing and I do not have my site anymore! No
> warning
> no nothing! one day all is fine and the next you can not find anything
> because
> because it is a new setup!
>
> In the past I wondered why AW's had so many users and the others only had a
> few
> and know I am starting to understand the why!
>
> Mac
> mac4tbh at hotmail.com

Nov 30, 2000, 9:51pm

Hrmm, that gives me an idea. Now I just needa find a big 'ol abandoned rack
server and use some cotton spiderwebs...

[View Quote] > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> [Image]

Dec 3, 2000, 11:01am

Obviously the kid is desperate for a password. Then when you email him with the encrypted password in the chat saying it won't work, you give him your
AW password. As for his bot that entered the world, did it actually have brackets around it's name? Or was it just another tourist-his partner? This is
probably the single most creative scam I've ever seen.

[View Quote] > Well, from all that I've heard, this is what is trying to be accomplished:
> 1) The "bot" is downloaded and run.
> 2) It opens your aworld.ini file according to a registry entry that has your AW directory in it.
> 3) The "bot" tries to find the AW window and then outputs a string with your encrypted password in it (this only works if you store your password).
>
> If you take this password and use it with the proper citizen name, it's just like having someone's real account password.
>
> PS - I've tried this out a couple of times and it only seems to work properly when in Alphaworld, not any other worlds.
>
> -Agent1
>
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Dec 3, 2000, 1:38pm

There had better be some significant reasons for this. Maybe updating the
universe server every few hours with a new build of 3.1 to allow Roland to test
some new features. But you'd think that he'd be testing it on a specialized
galaxy out of the way, but knowing AWCI, I doubt they'd do that.Anyway, don't
get in a huff over it, just let the 486 "server" with 16megs of RAM get over
it's growing pains or whatever.

[View Quote] > What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
> it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
> arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
> soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
> all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
> bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
> why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
> of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
> many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
> that!
>
> KAH
> PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
> I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
> the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
> know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

Dec 3, 2000, 3:00pm

This is posted over in AWgate...
(paraphrased of course)
AW is offline because we're idiots and messed up somthing and need to go back to
a backup. We apoligize for any inconvienience this may cause.

Essentially, this means they fucked over the world server during an upgrade or
somthing and need to go back to a backup, which is hopefully more recent than
the one that we went back to a couple years ago and lost all our buildings (when
was that? 1997?)

[View Quote] > What's this supposed to be???? AW is closed all the time! I've got enough of
> it! Today at 17:00 VRT AW better be up again, because then I'm having an
> arangement in my town! And I'm also in a party comitee in world pata and
> soon we are going to have a big Christmas party, so we can't have AW go down
> all the time! Friday you sayd it was System tests today you don't say why.
> bet those system tests made the whole thing crash! If you want to run tests,
> why don't you get yourself a test universe? YOU don't have to pay touhsands
> of Dollars for it, YOU own the whole thing!!!!!! The autumn AW has had SOOOO
> many downtimes that I think you should buy new servers or something like
> that!
>
> KAH
> PS. You gotta change the system requirements for AW 3.0:
> I tryed it and I have a 4mb Direct 3D card but It wouldn't load textures.
> the system requirements arn't just what you need tomake it function, you
> know! it's also what you need tomake it function CORRECTLY!

Dec 4, 2000, 9:18pm

With a SUN Microsystems crew on site, I'd think they'd have had this taken care
of long ago. Anyway, if this is any help, I heard that the servers were
rebooting themselves, and my computer reboots itself as well. Until of course,
I got mad at it earlier today and pulled out the motherboard to check
connections and stuff. The RAM wasn't in the socket all the way-Go figure.
Must've been rushing when I switched to PC133.

[View Quote] > We're going on 3 days now with no AW. I would think they would have planned
> for stuff like this with a backup server. What a concept! It's not like
> they're poor you know. Oh well, the world goes on....or as in this
> case....it doesn't.

Dec 8, 2000, 9:40am

My theory is that it took so long because there were 50+ rolls of duct
tape in various spots holding the servers together. The tape had to be
removed, the problem fixed, and then the machine re-taped with fresh
duct tape. The Sun crew provided exrta tape removing hands and swapped
out the offending piece of hardware. Then once the server was rebuilt,
they realized they had left one of their employees inside after a
headcount and had to remove the tape once more. Once the tape was back
in place and a head count had been taken, they set about restoring data
from their 100 meg zip disks, only to realize that disk 5391 from AW's
server was missing. Now they are in the process of hand reassembling the
missing data hoping it'll be correct, which it most likely won't.

[View Quote] > lol it aint thyre fault it was a hardware problem even sun microsys.
> couldnt figure out for a while.... well i guess they should have at
> least put out the backup server earlier sheesh
>
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Dec 10, 2000, 2:49am

There's only one reason I would post GARBAGE like this to this
newsgroup. Personal attacks by a world owner against my friends will are
not tolerable and I feel that this is the best way to punish this young
man for his wrongs. The website which the world owner has posted to is
located at http://www.geocities.com/awbigbrother/ and is constantly
expanding to contain more propaganda (all staged or completely fake)
about people. The world that this author owns is "utopia" an up and
coming gaming world (formerly a public building world). The world owner,
Utopian Monarch seems to have quite a grudge against me, and since he
can't attack me personally has resorted to attacking Peacekeepers and my
friends. I fee lthat I'm doing somewhat of a service by giving fair
warning to avoid this particular sector of cyberspace. I also hope that
because of these happenings, some of his advertising in other worlds may
be cut off, teaching him a lesson (hopefully). Eep and the like, don't
bother attacking me for posting this, I feel it has to be done. If you
don't than just ignore it. Use common sense.

--Wing

Jan 18, 2001, 10:44pm

Old post, I know. But I worked on a currency project in AW long before USWF
was even thought of. Utopia had a functioning bank system for a good time,
complete with bots and PIN numbers if I remember properly. However, The
system was scrapped after a turn of events leading to a complete revamp of
the public building world without even informing the people building there
(OOPS)

--
Wing
This little spot is dedicated to my girl, Jessie.
It's a CLOSED beta ya morons.
AW Citizen 305004 "Wing"
bathgate at prodigy.net
eyemwing at teleport.com
ICQ #101207433
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