| ONWARD AND UPWARD IN '99!
STARLINK-IRC proudly announces a new server: Anaheim.CA.US.StarLink-IRC.Org
(209.164.21.21). This west coast connection is brought to you by Wullie
and Busterc, and has passed its tests and is running full speed ahead!
The newest IRC Op has been announced - Gyrene. Welcome to Operland, Gy!
His home server is Anaheim, his home channel #norwich.
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THIS MONTH'S CELEBRATIONS
- Let's party!
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by lois
Jan 1 Starlink-IRC's 2nd birthday
Jan 13 Rygter's birthday in Denmark (#norwich)
Jan 28 just^'s birthday (#norwich)
Feb l GV's birthday in Mississippi (#norwich)
From banshee:
#babyboomers would like to wish some of our op's a Happy Birthday
Jan 10 Susie
Jan 17 Alamodem
Jan 21 Sofia
Jan 23 Chee/sugar
Jan 26 Hogrider and before the next newsletter the owner of #babyboomers
Feb 9 Wullie 2-9
We would like to thank everyone for making us a part of Starlink-IRC
::HUGS:: banshee
(If we do not have your birthday or anniversary date,
let us know so we can celebrate with you. Tell us which channel you are
on, please.)
StarLink-IRC celebrated its' second anniversary on Jan 1,
1999 with a GREAT party in #Townhall. Thanks once again to #mirc_colors
for putting on an AWESOME anniversary color show and thanks to ALL the
users for making StarLink-IRC the great net that it is today!!
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#ITSY
The #Itsy story. Once upon a time, in an undernet far
far away, there joined a spider. (It was Oct 95, or thereabouts). Of course,
in those days, undernet was only about 800 channels, so the list was manageable
(and a lot less pornographic).
Some background here.. Itsy was an NT beta tester for
Bruce Switzer's "Stiletto" desktop manager program and, as a
result, there was some correspondence back and forth. Bruce is from Toronto
and, as it happens, while scanning the channel list, #canadian showed up.
Figuring that they ought to be friendlier than the standard collection
of irc cafes and bars, the spider joined #canadian. Webgirl (webby) was
there, as was Amazing, and the very first thing they saw was:
<Itsy> foo!
After a while (December) it seemed like registering a
channel was 'the' thing to do, the application was mailed off and, lo and
behold, in January 96, #Itsy got X assigned to it. Yay! Gennywine registered
channel.
Over the next couple months, #Itsy nearly tripled in
size. (Course, it usually doubled in size when anybody showed up at all,
but thats another story). Some regulars were Amazing, and Zoilus, not to
mention the ones 'borrowed' from #canadian like webgirl, zen2, and tbg.
So, #Itsy got associated with #canadian, #oldbies, and
a couple others. #oldbies is where we met TerryNZ and her magic 4x4. After
a few months though, the proverbial undernet lag got pretty bad. (And,
this was in the OLD days with less than 1000 channels!) So, Amazing and
Itsy started hunting around for another net.
For a while, #Itsy was running (operationally) on the
SuperChat network , but still homed on undernet. That only lasted a couple
months, the first ones being with no bot at all, and the end of it using
a bot called 'CS' (a copy of chatnet's K9, on loan from DrWho). That was
also about the time g-force and Itsy established #channels and the current
concept of the channel service group that still exists as CService on StarLink-IRC.
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Getting fed up with the oper abuses, some lame admins
and the typical chaff, a few of us one night decided to form the StarLink
network. #Itsy was there for about 6 months and the history of the rather
adventurous departure from there in January 1997 is covered best in the
slhistry.text file on the SL-IRC website.
The rest is history, as they say. #Itsy is still "under
destruction, no intelligent conversation allowed" as always and open
to one and all who want to forget reality for a little while and just have
fun.
Itsy
#HHFC
the initials stand for Heartland Home Front Committee
in GeoCities We members of the committee meet weekly to discuss our ideas
and projects at our site:in
geocities. To join our meetings you need to have a homestead in the Neighborhood
Heartland or one of its various suburbs. Meaning a home page in GeoCities/Heartland.
We have a lot of fun in this committee on line, and communicate off line
to one another through illness etc. We are the "home away from home"....Cyber
home!
HHFC offers recipes, crafts, household help, gardening,
holidays, budgets, basically anything dealing with your home life. Domestic
living and fun in life. We have contests as well. Soon we hope to open
up the game room. Feel free to come home and take a look around. Thanks
Lois for this newsletter, looking forward to getting to know others. Thanks
to StarLink-IRC who is allowing us space in their channels, Everyone in
StarLink-IRC is so helpful and patient. Thanks again for sharing your network
with HHFC.
I bid you Peace, Harmony and Love, K. Stoeffler (aka
OregonRose)
"The Old Dreams, Were Good Dreams, They Didn't Work
Out, But, I'm Glad I Had Them!"
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WHO'S DOING WHAT?
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by lois and amazing
The shortest-lived channel in Starlink-IRC History:
#Amazing_finally_got_a_channel_so_there
Amazing was sniffing over the fact that she had been
on IRC for three years and never had a channel. So, suddenly there appeared
her channel (name above), complete with Cstar! That proves what perserverence
can do!
Our condolences and sympathy go out to treecat
on the loss of her mom on Jan 4,1999 and on the loss of her step-dad on
Jan 14, 1999. Our thoughts and prayers are with you at this time tree...*hugs*
ellegon of #Emerg_Serv_Lobby is well on the road to recovery
after she underwent surgery. Glad to see your feeling better elle!!
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FOGWEB FOLLIES
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A short column of made-up facts and
non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid
It has been noted by this lame ^H^H^H^ experienced
reporter that we have gotten a bunch of new users who arrived with their
channels here lately. They all seem nice, friendly folks. Well sure, but,
THIS HAS TO STOP!! If IRC fills up with friendly people then where would
we be? Write your congressperson. Write the President! (hm, you may want
to address that one to "Occupant", just as a bit of advice.)
On the weird happenings front, treecat seems to have
survived her encounter with those evil denizens of the northlands .. little
TINY polar bears the size of cockaroaches that infest dryer ducting. It
seems also she has taken up with 7 of these little polaroaches .. there's
even a picture of one on the SLIRC server's page! Rumor has it there is
a witch and a prince somewhere in this story. It's also true there are
8 traffic lites in Williams Lake .. also known to be involved somehow.
Watch this space as your intrepid reporter invents ^H^H^H^H finds more
news on this sordid affair.
We ALSO have a new server in Anaheim, California ..
home of M*c*ey M*use and D*s*y*a*d. HMMMM .. now, given the above story
about treecat and the 7 polaroaches, this member of the fourth estate has
a hard time believing that this, too, is a coincidence. Are we being invaded?
Are we going to be swallowed up in the D*s*e* empire and turned into a
theme park? (Why is it called a theme park? I have NEVER seen a theme parked
in any of them. Sounds like more advertising hype to me.)
According to uninformed (and cheap) sources, an unnamed
dragon has recently had some annoying parts removed, which have disappeared
without a trace. There is also a new admin on the "other" network.
Coincidence? I think not ! You be the judge.
And as a closing note, everyone should take the lead
from mailbabe (randomly seen hither and yon) who has managed to connect
IRC to checking mail. Look for a new release of Micr*soft IRCMail at stores
near you. Go there now and wait. (DONT do this!, Ed.) Tell them Itsy sent
you.
Thats all there is for now, have a happy 99!
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NEW STARS IN OUR LINK
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by Treecat
A warm welcome to this month's new channels and their
owners.
If you have a chance, do stop in and give these folks a friendly Hi!
- #Relationships - Lloyd
- #Poetry - phantom
- #Xwing - Dewy
- #PointeCL - donna_g
- #Lakeside_Cafe - slater
- #christian-chat - Wrrynkles
- #USS-Prophecy - Nokia
- #CyberCafe - Cafe_Kid
- #Moonshadow - starmoon
- #Mag&Stangs_House - Mustang4v
- #1912 - Murdoch
- #HHFC - OregonRose
- #Kate^s_Place - Katie
- #Streetcops - chathappy
- #Chapel - Chaplain
- #WandersInn - Austerus
- #hideaway - Dusty^
- #DreamQuest - LdyViviane
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TRAVEL
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Places to go on the net
SOME PLACES TO GO (PROVIDED BY OREGONROSE )
Rose's
Ocean Cottage
New Beginnings
- Survivors of Brain Injuries
Tribute to Bridges
of Madison County
GEOCITIES RELATED SITES:
Community Leader for: Heartland/Pointe/9000-9249
Chairman of: Heartland
Home Front Committee
Which includes Crafts
Join us in creating our online
Cookbook!
Webring Master for: Cottage
Webring
Heartland Home Front Webrings: Committee
Crafts
MADD
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THE MEETING ROOM
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by Amazing
KIDZ TRIVIA:9:00PM EST Saturdays in #KidzChat.
Hosted by maia, the weekly kids Trivial Pursuit game!
TRIVIA GAME: 9:00PM EST Wednesdays
in #WedNiteTrivia.
Hosted by NOLady, a weekly trivia game for the grown
ups (18+)
OUTBURST: Occurs randomly (mostly Fridays) in
#Just4Fun
Hosted by somebody, this is a fun and exciting game
you have to try.
Regular
Network Event Schedule
Note: All times are Eastern US
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SUN
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9:30
PM
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#TownHall
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Network
Wide User Meeting **
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MON
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9:00
PM
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#TownHall
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User
Classes and Seminars
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TUE
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WED
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9:00
PM
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#WedNiteTrivia
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TRIVIA
!
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THU
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8:00
PM
9:30
PM
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#OldRadio
#TownHall
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Fans
of Old Time Radio
Network
Wide User Meeting **
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FRI
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9:00
PM
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#Just4Fun
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Outburst
Game! Fun for All
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SAT
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9:00
PM
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#KidzChat
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Kidz
Only Trivia Nite!
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NET MEETINGS:9:30pm EST Sun/Thu in #TownHall
Hosted by Amazing, SL-IRC Net meetings are now held
Sunday and Thursday nights, 9:30 ET in #TownHall. Everyone is invited to
attend!
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Unpaid Advertisement
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RESERVE TOWNHALL FOR YOUR MEETING!
#Townhall can be reserved for parties or meetings.
Send an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org
if you are interested in reserving the channel for an event. An email will
be sent back, confirming the reservation. Put #townhall in the SUBJECT
of the mail, and date, time and reason in the BODY.
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Yet Another Unpaid Advertisement!.
there has to be some way to make a buck here
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THE WORKSHOP - PUTER TIPS
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Contributed Tips and Information
Start the New Year with a Clean Mouse
If, over a period of time you notice your mouse is
getting balkier, making it harder for you to move your cursor, think, "It's
not broken, it's dirty!"
The procedure to clean a mouse and trackball are essentially
the same, and it's best to clean them periodically, and do not wait for
it to get dirty and hard to use.
First, if you have a manual, dig it out. Read it.
It may show a diagram or cutaway and possibly instructions that will make
the job easier for you. You will only need a clean lint free cloth, Qtips,
and a mild soap solution. Small tweezers or toothpick and isopropyl (rubbing)
alcohol may be useful. (Keep parts in an ashtray while working.)
Clean outside and cord with cloth moistened in soap
solution and wipe dry. Turn device upside down and remove the retainer
plate or bottom cover. Most can be rotated an lifted out. Some older ones
have screws instead. The screw in the ball plate is usually a small phillips
head screw.
Remove the ball carefully. Clean ball with moistened
(not saturated) cloth and set aside to dry completely before placing it
back in the mouse assembly. Blow loose dirt out of the ball cage. Be careful
not to damage any of the components. You can use toothpicks or tweezers
to dislodge any matted lint you may be able to see. A cotton swab lightly
moistened in alcohol may be used for cleaning rollers. Look at the rollers
inside and if you see dark lines of dirt which have built up, clean from
side to side with Qtip and alcohol.
Place ball back in cage and replace the bottom cover,
and your mouse will be as good as new!
Incidentally, complete the job by cleaning off your
mouse pad to remove all dust, oil or crumbs -- wash or vacuum it, depending
upon its material.
Approved by Chief Technician Busterc
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THE POETRY CORNER
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contributed poems
---- 'CYBER LOVESICK BLUES ----
- I've got the cyber lovesick blues
Oh Lord, since my connection went away
My computer is broken
Now there's nothing to say
Okay, now what am I to do?
Well, I think I'm gonna die
Oh, I can't chat
I can't write
It's got that kind of power
Lord I love to hear it,
when it says, there's maieeellll
Such a beautiful sound
I hate to think it's all over
I lost my world it seems
I've grown so used to it somehow
Well I've nobody to talk to now
I'm lonesome
I've got the cyber lovesick blues
Well I'm in love, I'm in love
with this durn machine
that's what the matter with me
I'm love I'm in love
with this durn machine
but it don't care about me
Lord I tried and I tried to keep it bootin up
but it just won't play but now that it is broken
and I know it is gone this is all I can say
I've got the cyber internet blues
Oh Lord, since my connection went away
My computer is broken
Now there's nothing to say
Okay, now what am I to do?
Well, I think I'm gonna die
Oh, I can't chat
I can't write It's got that kind of power
Lord I love to hear it,
when it says there's maieeellll
Such a beautiful sound
I hate to think it's all over
I lost my world it seems
I've grown so used to it somehow
Well I've nobody to talk to now
I'm lonesome
I've got the cyber lovesick blues
Lyrics by Lorraine Beldo (c) Copyright 1997
Music by Hank Williams Sr.
-- Faceless Friends --
Your face, your smile, I have never seen
I don't know the color of your skin
Your voice and laughter I have never heard
I don't know if it is soft or loud
Your hugs I have never felt
I don't know the strength of your arms
Your hand I have never touched
I don't know if it is calloused and worn
But to me you are my friend
Dearer and sweeter than many I've found
The questions come to me, "How can that
be?"
"You don't know a face, a touch, or a sound."
But is it the physical nature of a person
That causes me to call you "my friend"
Or the feel of a touch or the strength of a hug
I don't need those for you to be my friend
You have shared with me words of strength
At times I have felt weak and worn
You have brought to me a smile, a laugh
Uplifting me and bringing me joy
You have bent your "ear" to me and
listened
Then gently guided and directed with your words
You have hugged me tight, wiped my tears
Then generously gave to me above and beyond
You are more to me than words on a screen
For behind those words is a person who cares
A person with feelings, a tear, and a laugh
Who holds my mind safe and secure
For even though I don't know your face, your
touch
I feel and see you in my mind Y
ou have been all to me that I've needed you to
be
Now and forever within my heart...
My faceless Friend....
Author: Beth A. Rogers
Lois
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