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**Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 12:43 am

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fimacmo · Veteran Joined: 05 Jan 2005 Posts: 136

Hi. I realise the age of the text: 1993 or thereabouts. But what I was interested in was the fact it was a tutorial for interrogating mail lists. Maybe we are just being told to be patient when we get the response to the email. Or maybe the response is a key. If it is a key and searching it takes you to a page like this maybe we could employ the techniques explained here to get the next bit of info.

I understand that it is not classically "in-game" but are you then saying that all source material has to be custom made for each game?

**Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 4:28 am

Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

The directory is the public FTP directory for Nottingham university. So, for example, if a Comp. Sci. lecturer wanted to put all his notes, or some source code or something for his students (or anyone else) to access then he could upload it into the nottingham.ac.uk/pub directory.

Mostly people just stick links to files on their web pages now and transfer them over HTTP (which is why, having had a look around at some other files on there, the list of files seems like it's been largely forgotten and ignored by the majority of the uni). The /pub/projects/interrally/ directory seems to be filled with 10-year-old instructions for using net services that have been pretty much abandoned with the advent of the web (Gopher anyone?) and at least a few of them start with some sort of quote like the Disraeli one.

In fact, I'm certain that I've seen at least one or two of them from when I first got online back in '95, when such services constituted a greater percentage (and possibly also a greater total amount) of data traffic on the net. The flame war one definitely rings a bell.

So the quote is probably just conincidence, especially since trying to go after the mail server in this way seems to me like it breaks commandment 3 anyway.

**Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:32 am

Jay

**Posted:** Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:40 pm

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mr_good_trips · Boot Joined: 23 Dec 2004 Posts: 37

**Posted:** Sat Jan 29, 2005 8:16 pm

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Alex Smith · Decorated Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 162

In character, I emailed:

ELee
ElizabethLee
LLing
LyssaLing
SarahCovington
SCovington
JulianePero
JPero
SLing
ATanner
AmyTanner
FMedling
FranMedling
HeskethZeller
HZeller

All at both @projectsyzygy.com and @perplexcity.com.

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**Posted:** Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:14 pm

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leakingpen · Decorated Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 187

btw, for those that put in long stuff, the field length was set at 25. anything above 25 characters will just get cut off.

**Posted:** Sun Jan 30, 2005 9:20 pm

KSG · Decorated Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 186 Location: WA, USA

That's a bit short, isn't it? Both of my e-mails are 24 characters....

**Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2005 7:29 am

Olorin

**Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2005 8:45 am

KSG · Decorated Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 186 Location: WA, USA

Yeah, that makes way more sense.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2005 10:13 am

Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

Yup, to confirm what Olorin said, the size=25 just means that it appears on the page to be 25 characters long. You can type more than that in there and use the arrow keys to scroll back and forth, but it looks nicer with a reasonably small textbox than one long enough to contain peter.john.smithSPLATacompanywithaverylongname.co.uk or whatever.

**Posted:** Mon Jan 31, 2005 12:36 pm

Munchkin

That's a relief *all* of my e-mail adresses are longer than 25 characters!
I was getting worried there!
- C

**Posted:** Fri Feb 04, 2005 10:30 pm

OmegaX

Great, so I signed up with an 18-character e-mail for nothing?

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2005 12:10 am

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KSG · Decorated Joined: 12 Jan 2005 Posts: 186 Location: WA, USA

Well...you may have saved a few bites of disc space for whoever's storing these things. Think of it as a charitable effort.

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:49 am

Olorin

**Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:27 am