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[UnimportantHero]

[META][EMAIL] evaSPLATsubject180287.net

[WolfHawk]

Nice job!

I wonder if those of us who don't have mobile phones could send pictures to this address as suggested in the uplink thread:

[FORUM] Timehole Post - Saving Eva 2/21

Sorry, don't know how to make a link to the thread. Maybe a mod can help me out.

Let us know if you get a response!

ETA: a helpful link.- drizjr

[UnimportantHero]

thank you i will!

[Sylvia]

WolfHawk, so far it seems that the only ones who have been successful are those with mobile phones. not fair, but, oh well. the easiest way i have found to make links is to open the "Post a reply" in a separate window or tab leaving the first free to quickly look something up.

UnimportantHero, Welcome aboard. You will have to overlook us we have been so excited over the events this past weekend that we are forgetting to welcome new players properly. Please don't feel intimidated, some players may come here with code cracking skills bursting at the seams but most of us, I for one, could barely crack an egg when I started. However, these args have turned out to be a virtual code cracking college. And after you have been here for awhile you will see what i mean.

Thanks for letting us know about the email. You were right in not waiting for a reply because, as many of us have found out, the PMs don't always have the time to answer every email or they might be ignoring something that is not in the script.

Always when in doubt, feel free to ask. There is only a few who get high from being critical b-holes, most of us are more than willing to help and glad to see a new person taking an interest.

Once again, from all of us. Welcome aboard!

[Rekidk]

I think we had a similar idea. However, I didn't follow through nearly as well as you did, UnimportantHero.

I shot off a bunch of emails on a whim yesterday. If I remember correctly, they were:

myheadSPLATevamcgill.co.uk
insidemyheadSPLATevamcgill.co.uk
meSPLATevamcgill.co.uk (which bounced b/c the message box was full)
evaSPLATevamcgill.co.uk
evaSPLATsubject180287.net
myheadSPLATsubject180287.net
insidemyheadSPLATsubject180287.net
meSPLATesubject180287.net

They all more-or-less contained the same message, asking Eva to contact me if any of the messages got through. I didn't get a bounce message on any of them (except meSPLATevamcgill.co.uk).

I think it's really interesting that you did get a bounce message on randombananaSPLATsubject180287.net, because that indicates that the email addresses that you and I emailed do, indeed, exist. I think we're on the right track with this. Thanks for bringing this all up!

[UnimportantHero]

wow.

yeah if a bunch of those did not bounce then it says one of two things to me:

(1) there are going to be a lot of email-based puzzles coming up and we have managed to position ourselves (yay intuition) in a good place for those.
(2) some of these emails were originally intended for the game but were not used, and the puppet master(s) just forgot to delete them.

we shall see soon, eh?

i have been kind of thinking of emailing a poem about friendship along with a few pictures to the eva email this thread concerns, just to see what happens. but first i want to see if i hear back from any of the characters. i hope they would at least say if we are on the right track or not, regardless of the script.

[Jediwannabe]

I'm not too sure that it's significant - when you own a domain, you can set the mail system so that it automatically redirects any email sent to an address that does not exist as its own mailbox, to the admin address.

So for example, you can set evaSPLATsubject180287.net to go to Eva's mailbox, keir@subject180287 to go to Keir's email address, and then Anything else @subject180287 to go to webmaster@subject180287 instead.

It is interesting that the randombanana bounced, but I would give it another shot just to make sure - either someone typo'd on the domain name, or the non-assigned mailbox redirection had not been turned on yet.

[Sylvia]

Guys don't get your hopes up on the email addresses. If you've never owned your own domain you may not know that you have a default email account that catches all incoming email no matter what is before the [@] symbol. The reason some bounce is the filters probably saw them as spam or some other inappropriate content. You could probably email noone[@]evamcgill.co.uk and it would probably not bounce. However, it might be filtered to be automatically sent to the trash on the server side allowing only the addresses that are specifically specified to get to their in boxes. Which keeps things neat and tidy for the PM so therefore, they probably never get read. This is sort of hard to explain without a demonstration but I hope you get the idea.

Usually, the majority of the time, the PMs will give the correct email address to use. Only rarely have I seen any that you actually have to guess at. When they do they usually give enough hints so you can guess the right address fairly easily. Usually if one is not given it means the character or the person behind the character is not ready to accept and respond to email. I have seen this changed by the players, though, where the PMs rewrote the character to have more contact with the players than what had originally been intended.

This is a very well thought out and planned ARG. Someone obviously spent a lot of time getting it just right so I don't think the PMs will steer to far off course. In other words, we wait for our next clue. For example we're expecting more Birthday Cards, soon I hope, and maybe something else to do with the SRI exam and we have hardly missed a day without some sort of update. And as for contacting Eva, we have been given two hints on how to do that. The first and main one is via uplink.html the other may not be correct but has to do with the phrase "inside my head."

I hope I managed to be of some help and not confuse things any more than they already are.

Be Patient and Happy ARGing Guys.

[Jediwannabe]

[iambalrog]

I understood you Jedi!

[Rekidk]

Ah, okay. I understand now. Thanks for explaining, Jediwannabe and Sylvia!

[Sylvia]

You're welcome Rekidk, hope it didn't cause more confusion.

[Jediwannabe]

[Sylvia]

Sorry Jedi, I totally misread your intentions. I thought you were being sarcastic. I will be more careful in the future.

[tim7168]

Woo! Culture clashing! Yeah us English-types can be a bit dry sometimes. You get used to it.