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Message no. 1
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Walking the WebRing
Date: Tue, 14 Jul 1998 23:23:59 -0400
Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
Message no. 2
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:28:27 +1000
Wordman writes:
> Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?

Just for that, I'm going to do it...

(Yeah, I know... it's shallow, petty and vain, but hey, those are my good
points)

--
.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 3
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:43:39 +1000
I wrote:
> Wordman writes:
> > Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
>
> Just for that, I'm going to do it...
>
> (Yeah, I know... it's shallow, petty and vain, but hey, those are my good
> points)

For the record...

The WebRing can't be walked around using the 'next site' buttons. At least
not completely. At least one site I found in the first few minutes didn't
_have_ the next site buttons, and another didn't have a valid site ID set
up. You can still walk around it using the index though. :)

--
Duct tape is like the Force: There's a Light side, a Dark side, and it binds
the Universe together.
Robert Watkins -- robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 4
From: "Steven A. Tinner" <bluewizard@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 00:23:42 -0400
-----Original Message-----
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET <SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET>
Date: Tuesday, July 14, 1998 11:33 PM
Subject: Walking the WebRing


>Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?

Several times.
Hey, I work second shift and get bored when I get home at midnight. ;-)

Lot of trash/lot of treasure.
It's just fun to check out how many sites there are, and what everyone's
take on the game is.

Why?

Steven A. Tinner
bluewizard@*****.com
http://listen.to/Tinner
"I'm the kind of guy who laughs at a funeral ..." - BNL
Message no. 5
From: K is the Symbol <Ereskanti@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 03:14:35 EDT
In a message dated 7/14/98 10:25:15 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
wordman@*******.COM writes:

> Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
>
Uh, no, now that I think about it, I haven't. I just cleaned out my Internet
Temp Files directory as it was (4200 items) and that quipped up to 7.5
meg...going around the Webring would probably cause things to literally
-explode- without a lot of refreshing things.

Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??

-K
Message no. 6
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 05:07:32 -0600
At 13:43 15/07/98 +1000, you wrote:

>The WebRing can't be walked around using the 'next site' buttons. At least
>not completely. At least one site I found in the first few minutes didn't
>_have_ the next site buttons, and another didn't have a valid site ID set
>up. You can still walk around it using the index though. :)

<Growl>

I need to walk the webring myself sometime this summer and delete the sites
that don't bother to set themselves up properly, or think they can pull a
fast one by removing the code after getting added..

-Adam J
-
< http://www.interware.it/users/adamj / ICQ# 2350330 / fro@***.ab.ca >
< ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader / TSA Co-Admin / TSS Productions >
< FreeRPG & Shadowrun Webring Admin / The Shadowrun Supplemental >
< The Entity responsible for the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball >
Message no. 7
From: "M. Sean Martinez" <ElBandit@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 08:42:04 EDT
In a message dated 7/15/98 3:15:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, Ereskanti@***.COM
writes:

> Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??

I do, at least it seems that way :)

-El Bandit

http://members.aol.com/elbandit/index.html

Reason #173 to fear technology:

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Message no. 8
From: Lehlan Decker <decker@****.FSU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 09:05:05 -0500
>
> In a message dated 7/14/98 10:25:15 PM US Eastern Standard Time,
> wordman@*******.COM writes:
>
> > Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
> >
> Uh, no, now that I think about it, I haven't. I just cleaned out my Internet
> Temp Files directory as it was (4200 items) and that quipped up to 7.5
> meg...going around the Webring would probably cause things to literally
> -explode- without a lot of refreshing things.
>
> Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??
>
Me. :)
Its kinda fun to go around the webring, when your bored and waiting
for code to compile. :) (Of course I could justify a faster machine, but
then I wouldn't have the freetime :)).

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decker@****.fsu.edu http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~decker
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Morality is moral only when it is voluntary.
Message no. 9
From: The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 08:53:13 -0500
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, K is the Symbol wrote:

> Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??

Those of us with do nothing jobs that give us T1 connections to the net.
stuff downloads reallly fast over a 1.5 megabit line.:)

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
Message no. 10
From: Logan Graves <logan1@*****.INTERCOM.NET>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:37:48 -0400
In our last episode, Wordman wrote:
>
> Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?

Yes, I did--back when the 'Ring had only about 50 sites to its name.
But not lately. Maybe a trek is in order. 'Sides, my links page is
looking a mite thin...

--Fenris
_______________________________________________logan1@*****.intercom.net
(>) Look ma, no plugs for the BKK! Oops. damn.
(>) Fen-boy
Message no. 11
From: "Jonny D. Robinson" <OracleBlur@***.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 17:09:17 EDT
In a message dated 98-07-14 23:48:00 EDT, you write:

>
> Robert wrote:
> > Wordman writes:
> > > Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
> >
> > Just for that, I'm going to do it...
> >
> > (Yeah, I know... it's shallow, petty and vain, but hey, those are my good
> > points)
>
> For the record...
>
> The WebRing can't be walked around using the 'next site' buttons. At least
> not completely. At least one site I found in the first few minutes didn't
> _have_ the next site buttons, and another didn't have a valid site ID set
> up. You can still walk around it using the index though. :)

I've tried using the index, too...there are a bunch of sites that are
A) really old
B) so old that they're no longer on it
or C) a bunch of sites on the Ring via next sites AREN'T ON the index...

I've gone through about 150 of them, I'd guess...

Robinson
-too much time to waste
Message no. 12
From: Wildthing <twowolfe@*******.NET>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 15:21:32 -0700
Wordman wrote:
>
> Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?

yeah i have been to almost every site
but since there is a few new sites a week or so its a never ending walk
Message no. 13
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 23:28:06 -0400
K wrote:
>Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??

Cable modems are a very good thing.

Wordman
Message no. 14
From: Wordman <wordman@*******.COM>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 23:30:27 -0400
Steven A. Tinner wrote:
> I wrote:
>>Has any ever walked all the way around the Shadowrun Web Ring?
>
>Several times.
>Why?

Just curious. Just wondering how much actual use people get out of web rings
in general.

Wordman
Message no. 15
From: "Ubiratan P. Alberton" <ubiratan@**.HOMESHOPPING.COM.BR>
Subject: Re: Walking the WebRing
Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 22:00:01 -0300
At 08:53 15/07/98 -0500, you wrote:
>On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, K is the Symbol wrote:
>
>> Besides, who on earth has -that- much downloading time..??
>
>Those of us with do nothing jobs that give us T1 connections to the net.
>stuff downloads reallly fast over a 1.5 megabit line.:)

Imagine what someone could do with a 20 MePS line, like those in VR 2.0...
I'd be extremely happy with a 1 MePS line myself, It figures I could
download TerraServer
in a few minutes with it :) .

Bira

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