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OUTLANDISH NEWS...December,2000
Our chats have had some real ups and downs. I can blame some of it on a prolonged virus this fall, but I have NO MORE excuses for the way the AIM rooms were working...or NOT! Recently AOL updated to version 6.0 and since then, accessing the AIM rooms has been totally erratic, no matter how you updated. The Proverbial STRAW was last week when I could use AIM but couldn't access ANY of my AIM chat rooms--even though I updated my computers. That was That...AIM chat rooms are HISTORY Now! It was also tiresome to have to spend half of our chat time trying to get folks into the room! :( I knew I had to quickly find a decent chat room that didn't involve downloading. Since I have "groups" set up at both Excite and E-Groups... I took a look at both of them. Both are highly recommended areas that simply involve registering and then subscribing or joining the groups involved in order to gain access to the chat rooms. I decided to go with the E-Groups since they seem a little more stable than the Excite group area. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE Excite.com and use it as my default with my @home service. But about 10% of the time, my "group pages" are not accessible. I simply didn't want to take the chance that this was server related during heavy traffic times. So I opted for the E-groups Chat rooms as the best option for now. I am keeping my eyes open and as I become more technically proficient I hope to eventually develop rooms you won't have to register for that have no access problems. If you currently have an e-group or onelist registration, simply log into our chat room or egroup link and subscribe to the Outlandish Central group. Only folks who are subscribed to this listing will get weekly chat reminders. My e-group persona is Reading Groups. General mail to the entire group will continue to come from my aol persona, TheOutlandish1@aol.com. Any problems with the room, either email me or see if I am online during chat times via my AIM instant messenger, Bookoworm. :)
Our Outlandish Central Message Board is a part of the Forum called "Bookaholics of the Book Clique Cafe", that I developed earlier this year to support a number of reading groups. It is located at www.ezboard.com and Bookaholics has been HONORED by its selection as a Featured Board on the Internet at the NEW BOOK SITE which ezboard just launched... www.talkaboutbooks.com! This is VERY exciting and
means some great promotion for our group on the Internet! PLEASE participate in
these boards, they have some GREAT new features. Recently we added Polling and
I've been trying to generate some questions. If you have any... just contact me
at theoutlandish!@aol.com and I'll
post them! Enjoy!!!
The Book Clique Cafe @readinggroupsonline.com. If you would like to help Support this Entire Site and directly, all the groups that will be a part of it, please check out our ... Survival Mall!!! If you Intend to use any of our vendors, this doesn't cost YOU anything! You can still take advantage of any discounts or free shipping as you click into the vendor from the Mall link. Sure, anyone can put up a free webpage, but the reality is that there ARE costs involved when you are trying to service a community with decent chat rooms, access to a decent server, and maintaining software. We are trying to create a relatively turnkey and enjoyable literary community and YOU can HELP us simply by remembering to use OUR MALL LINKS when you feel the urge to buy a book from Amazon, Electronics and More from Buy.com, Candles from Illuminations, A computer from Gateway, Perennials from our Gardening Sites, Pet supplies...you get the idea! We know that Christmas is coming and we will be posting a Linked page from the MALL with any additional specials that are monthly or seasonal. We don't intend to hit you over the head and constantly whine about needing help... We simply ask you that if you already intended to buy things online or play some games, BookMARK our Mall page and start there first. :)
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