General Information
For all who have webpages: Don't forget
you can join the webring by going to www.starlink-irc.org
or can ask questions concerning it in #WebRing :)
All channel owners: If you happen to change
ISP's or have a change of email address please let someone in #channels
know.
If for any reason cservice needs to get in touch with you in regards
to your channel we need a valid email address. You can also let cservice
know by sending an email to slirc-register@starlink-irc.org
Word Gamers: Great word game
channels: #Trivia, #Scramble, and #WedNiteTriva.
As you enter #Trivia or #Scramble, a message comes up asking for new
puzzles or trivia questions and where to send them. If you have any that
you would like added, please check out the email addresses in each of these
channels and send them in.
#International: StarLink-IRC is trying
a grand experiment with #International. We hope to bring together folks
from all nations and languages .. come join us for chat, good friends,
and if you can volunteer to translate, all the better. Even a smattering
of another language is welcomed! Leave your names with Channel Owner Wullie
or one of the other regulars if we can call on you for help. ¡Muchos
gracias!
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
THIS MONTH'S CELEBRATIONS
- Let's party!
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by lois
April
- 20 Armed Forces Day
- 21 Saints Day (Orthodox)
- 22 Victoria Day
- 25 Guunther’s Birthday (#Just4Fun)
- 26 Eagle’s Birthday (#Just4Fun)
- 28 Moose’s Birthday (#Just4Fun)
- 29 Memorial Day
(How many remember when it used to be called Decoration Day, when you
decorated the graves of the soldiers?)
- 31 Ironhawk (#icehawk)
- 31 World No Tobacco Day
- Older Americans Month.
June
- 1-7 StepParents’s Week
- 2 ^Hootie^’s Birthday (#Just4Fun)
- 2 Corinne (#Autism)
- 5 World Environment Day
- 6 Dragonboat Festival
- 8 Best Friend's Day
- 8 Vampire (#ThreeFlames)
- 9 carol (#Just4Fun)
- 18 Father's Day
(Take a father to lunch!)
SPECIALS
(If we do not have your birthday or anniversry date,
let us know so we can celebrate with you. Tell us which channels you are
on, please)
HORRORSCOPE
(a new feature for Jan 2000)
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by Lois
None this month.
AMAZING AND LESSER THINGS!
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by Amazing
Welcome to the newest server that's in test phase -Roswell.NM.US.StarLink-IRC.Org
and it's admin, Brad!
There are some color shows coming up in the near future.
They will be heldin #popup-palace and will be based on themes consisting
of Johnny Mathis,Patsy Cline, Love Poems and Beachboys. Watch this space
for dates and times!
Don't forget to order your StarLink-IRC t-shirts, sweatshirts
and caps!! How to order can be found at http://www.starlink-irc.org/slogos/phaedra.html
StarLink-IRC.Org receives no money for these items... the products shown
are being sold by a store owned by ellegon ( of #emerg_serv_lobby )
A BEING SIGHTED! Speaking of servers, you may know that
the Grantspass OR server is administered by a Being! Just in, this late-breaking
information from Blu:
While I was resting along a creek deep in the woods of
southern Oregon, I had was lucky to catch a glimpse of the infamous "BEING"
wandering around the woods!! To view the sighting click this link.
#MoonShadow
#MOONSHADOW Like to play Trivia? Starmoon, channel manager
for #Moonshadow, announces their human trivia game on Thursdays at 10 PM.
game of Trivia. She explains: The rules are... if ya win, you get to host
the following week... but don't let that deter you from winning. If you
win and can't host, one of the channel regulars will alwaysdo the honors.
It is a lot of fun and we have some great laughs. So why not come and play?.
The main rule of the game is that Speeling Dusn't Cownt *grin... and you
have to laugh at least 3 times or you can't leave the room. We also ask
that you not be mean or nasty to anyone - or you will risk being kicked
out.
The game has 20 questions... sometimes 21 if a tie breaker
is needed. The host asks the questions and everyone else fires off the
answers. The winner is the first correct answer that the host sees. (This
rule is due to lag that sometimes happens on any IRC server. BUT very rarely
in Starlink-irc.
#Sunshine_Again
Once a month DebA will be hosting a game on the second
Friday of each month at 9 PM EST, beginning June 9.. The game is called
MADGABS. What is MADGABS? If you are there June 9, you'll find out.
If there are any others out there who have a game that
can be played in a Starlink-irc channel and you'd be willing to host it
once a month, please contact DebA via I_wonder_why@hotmail.com. She would
also love to hear from anyone who has a game idea even if they don't want
to host it. We already have SIM games, trivia and scramble so she would
like to offer other games besides those. She would like to gather enough
hosts to have a game running each friday down the road. She also welcome
suggestions from our webtv and java users because she knows they can't
see colors or hear the sounds played. If she can make a small change in
how the game looks to make it more enjoyable and playable for ya'll, please
let DebA know.
#Norwich
Norwichians have been watching while Brad and Busterc
worked together, 2500 miles apart, to get the Roswell, NM server in operation.
Brad lives in Roswell, and Busterc in upper NY State. Roswell is the city
that is famous for the report of aliens having crashed there on July 3,
1947. Brad is also sometimes known as Z_Alien, and he and busterc are both
ops on #Norwich and they share co-admin duties for the new server
#Cancer-Chat
Bel-foire has opened a channel for her Mom who has cancer.
She would like to chat with others with the same problems and who could
possibly share information on cancer.
#30-40Plus
Channel Owner Lacey wants to "brag" about their
latest award that they just received for the channel's webpage. She received
the following notification in her email and you’ll find it on their web
page
#Ocean^s_Wav^s:
A place for General Chat and a Place to Get sound files
. `Ocean is a ColorTeam member and they also play popups and color, and
help with mIRC if they can. All are welcome! A web page isn't done yet
but is coming soon
#Babyboomers
Carol and Dan tell us they live at Port Hardy on Vancouver
Island - at the opposite tip of the island from Victoria. They have put
a new highway from Victoria to Port Hardy and it only takes 7 to 8 hours
to cross the island. They would like them to put a bridge across our island
to the mainland like they did down east. We have whales and seals that
come through their bay so they get quite a show. This Spring has been awesome
with lots of Flowers blooming already.
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#OurCorner
There are lot of places to chat on the web. But sometimes
when the world is especially hard you need a safe place. A place to go
and talk without fear of being picked up. A place where you need not fear
being laughed at or picked on. That place hopefully will be #OurCorner.
There is lot of pain in life and people need a place tofind a friend. When
you feel like the world is closing around you and your back is in a corner,
let it be Our Corner. Maybe for a few minutes we can be your strength,
and maybe some laughter can come. It is open to the public because you
never know where the help will come from. If the subject becomes to serious
or to painful the option to go private with one of the ops is always available.
My sister and I have built a web page it is called Tee`Sha's World and
it is dedicated to those who have lived in and survived the pain. This
room is also dedicated to those people. Hopefully we will assist in helping
some others to survive.
Life is lonely without laughter and all is Lost without
Love.
Visit our website
if you get the chance.
Cherish those you know and Love those you cherish
Tee `Sha
#PRYS
My huband Wolf1 and I (Rythym) opened a place for a special
group of people that we both are involved with -- the P.R.Y.S. Foundation
better known as PRYS. PRYS was created to address the needs of people who
are suffering with PPS (Post Polio Syndrome). These people suffered through
their battle with Polio and now are seeing its devastation again. The extreme
fatigue, muscle ache, joint pain, further weakening of their body has caused
many to stop working and doing all those everyday activities that most
take for granted. The P.R.Y.S. Foundation Inc. is dedicated to easing the
burdens of Polio/PPS survivors and their families. Its mission is to educate
the public and the medical profession to this disabling disease and its
after-effects. Its goalsare to provide education to the medical community
as well as give support for those suffering from PPS.
We created the Foundation on the Internet. As an internet-based
foundation, most of our communication is done through chartrooms, ICQ and
email. We cancontact and talk with P.R.Y.S. members within minutes, giving
guidance and personal attention to any of our 400+ 'family' members from
around the world. We completely operate this Foundation from the Internet
and since October of 1997. More than 250,000 visitors have come to the
various pages of our web site. We help many others through our E-Mails,
Updates, Newsletters and Informational Data.
Having a Chatroom here has allowed our members [who mostly
are inexperienced computer users that use various methods of chatting (web-TV,
mIRC, Pirch] that was not always readily available on Talkcity or any other
server.
Thanks for everything, Maze and Itsy, you've been great
Visit the P.R.Y.S. Web
Site and look around. Then drop into #PRYS and say hi. Sandra Hall-Hansen
P.R.Y.S. Foundation
Polio-Remember Your Strength
P.O. Box 1217
Union Lake, MI 48387-1217 248-698-3055
For Polio/PPS Info: http://prys.net/
Join our Email list or Post on our Message Board: at
http://prys.net/menu.htm
Lady Rythym's Home Away From Home: http://www.funibiz.com/
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WHO'S DOING WHAT?
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by lois and amazing
HEARTFELT THOUGHTS to Wildchild, in #KyChatHouse,
who has had worries about one of her twin daughters. She had a bacterial
infection which drove her temperature through the roof and required big
dosings of antibiotics. Fever has finally subsided and we hope she is on
her road to recovery.
(Tell us what's happening on your channel - send
info to newsletter@starlink-irc.org)
FOGWEB FOLLIES
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A short column of made-up facts and
non-information brought to you by your friendly neighborhood arachnid
Your ever round one has been BUSY this month finding
a new house for the Rochester* server... and managed to find one only 15
miles up the road from Oakland University! (something of a miracle that!)
On the tech side, Dane and Ameret have been working
on doing an IRC (a fancified scripting web page) for our webbies who come
to visit. Its .. ah.. 'interesting' to see Ameret find the undocumented
features (i.e. bugs) in the buttons. Thrill a minute some nites.
One of our tourists (Jody) was attacked by a sticky
squirrel the other night .. its not clear if the attack was provoked ..
or exactly how the critter got sticky. Some things you just dont want to
know no matter how weird.
Have a safe Memorial Day weekend and see you next
month !!
Your friendly neighborhood arachnid.
Itsy
NEW CHANNELS
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New Stars in our Link 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!
- #USSVienna - EnsCain #Pirch - ^gal
- #OurCorner - Tee`Sha
- #fsg-recruitingoffice - Da`ar
- #music - makemomula
- #holodeck4 - vcomputer
- #Portugal - RedShift
- #italia - ioio
- #IBC-Radio - Spitfire
- #SedaliaMissouri - ShowMe1
- #ArtCity - JuneLarkin
- #EmpokNor - Rogue
- #Its_A_Zoo - ITSAZOO
- #duesouth - Dief
- #jabberway - Thorn
- #istanbul - dolunay
- #USS-Raven - Kahler
- #LambsPen - pammylamb
- #Sacred_Hoop - puma_heart
- #popup-palace - ^Mystyk^
- #ayva - ibrahim
- #cancer-chat - bel-foire
- #klavye - LaNceL0T
- #interchat - eh
- #ankara - scorpion
- #USS-Hood - Capt-Kun
- #20^sDeaf_Hot_Tub - Superman1
TRAVEL
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Places to go on the net
Places to Visit
Ever wonder how the Internet REALLY works? Where it came from?
Check out these links - you may find the experts know
less than they think they do!
- John
S. Quarterman's Site Interactive Week listed John Quarterman as one
of the 25 Unsung Heroes of the Internet, saying ``As president of [MIDS],
Quarterman, 43, is to Net demographics what The Gallup Organization is
to opinion polls.'
- How the Internet
Works The key to how the Internet works lies in understanding what
it is: The Internet is a network of networks. It is not an easily defined
single object.
No tech tips this month
THE MEETING ROOM
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by Amazing
COLOR
SHOWS
- There will be an Easter
color show in
- #Ocean^s_Wav^s on Saturday April 22nd
at 8pm ET
- Everyone is invited to come and watch
and enjoy the wonderful colors!!
TRIVIA!!: Running all the time in #Trivia
and #Trivia-Pro with a junior version in #Kidzchat
SCRAMBLE: The word game .. in #Scramble
of course.
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
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 as available
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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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Live
TRIVIA .. spelling optional!
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THU
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8:00
PM
9:30
PM
10:00
PM
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#OldRadio
#TownHall
#MoonShadow
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Fans
of Old Time Radio
Network
Wide User Meeting **
Trivia!
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FRI
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9:00
PM
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#Just4Fun
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Now
and then. Outburst Game! Fun for All
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SAT
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Unpaid Advertisement
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
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
IN MEMORIAM
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Those who have moveed on
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THE LIBRARY
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contributed poems, humor, and stories
- Smart husbands know NOT to ask this question...
- .
- How many mothers with PMS does it take to screw in
a light bulb?
- Answer:
- One. ONE!!
- And do you know WHY it only takes ONE?
- Because no one else in this house knows HOW to change
a light bulb.
- They don't even know the bulb is BURNED OUT. T
- hey would sit in this house in the dark for THREE
DAYS before they figured it OUT. And once they figured it out they
wouldn't be able to find the lightbulbs despite the fact that they've been
in the SAME CUPBOARD for the past SEVENTEEN YEARS.
- But if they did, by some miracle, find the lightbulbs,
TWO DAYS LATER the chair that they dragged from two rooms over to
stand on to change the STUPID lightbulb would STILL BE IN THE SAME
SPOT!!!!! AND UNDERNEATH IT WOULD BE THE CRUMPLED WRAPPER THE DARN LIGHT
BULBS CAME IN. WHY??? BECAUSE NO ONE IN THIS HOUSE EVER CARRIES
OUT THE GARBAGE!!!! IT'S A WONDER WE HAVEN'T ALL SUFFOCATED UNDER PILES
OF GARBAGE 12 FEET DEEP THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE HOUSE! IT WOULD TAKE AN ARMY
TO CLEAN THIS!
- That's how many.
- Any OTHER questions???
The evolution of homo-rebootus
contributed by g-force
Lois
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