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Nov 12, 1999, 2:46am

AHHH!!! eep is gone!!! here is what his site says:



11/9/99: This site is down in protest to the Active Worlds (AW)
newsgroups being down for over 3 weeks now with no word from
Activeworlds.com, Inc.
(AWCI). Rumours abound, from lack of funds (perhaps a lack of
citizenship renewals--like mine--gave a much needed kick-in-the-ass
wake-up call to AWCI) to
keep the newsgroup servers up, to "technical problems". An email to AW
support a couple weeks ago resulted in typical PR bullshit: "soon". In
the meantime,
City4All (another AW universe) has a new AWCommunity newsgroup.

I apologize if this causes you any convienence. Feel free to email Rick
Noll, JP, Roland, any/or any other AWCIer to voice your irritation with
their management.

11/11/99: Despite the newsgroups coming back on-line, they are now
protected from posting by requiring a valid AW citizen name/password. I
am now protesting
this as I feel this makes AW seem like an elite so-called "community"
instead of the freer, less governmental "Big Brother"like tyranny it
seems to be turning into more
and more with each new "policy" AWCI enacts. I am no longer an AW
citizen and so far have no regrets; in fact, I feel freer and less
subject to AWCI tyranny. I'm
moving on, basically. Anyway, this site will stay down until I feel AWCI
treats the community (citizens and tourists) with more respect. Once
again, I apologize if this
causes you any convienence, but hopefully through your frustration you
will voice your concerns to AWCI who will hopefully get a clue as to how
to more
respectfully deal with their customers, potential customers, and users
of AW.


and just when i need his site the most... what should we do about it?

Mar 2, 2000, 4:28am

Isn't it great???


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Mar 2, 2000, 6:35pm

Well, considering the actions taken by AWCI to discourage controversy
anywhere it rears its ugly head has now reduced the signal to noise ratio in
these newsgroups to absolute zero.... No, its not great at all.

As far as I can tell there is a "community" of about 3 people who seem to
like what has happened here.

I'm sure that given enough time, the information set gathered by eep will be
replaced (or just out and out stolen). But last time I checked, most of the
links in the AW help pages were invalid, and they hadn't even spell-checked
their press releases.

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Mar 3, 2000, 1:02am

Well me and my 2 mates still think it's great..

I have seen more constructive input into the news groups in resent time with
out the continuous complaining about what AW should or should not do. Please
don't take Eeps place.

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