Rebel "Outpost?"

[E. Blackadder]

Where is the rebel homeland, one wonders...

[Anonymous]

Maybe Rebels have no homeland. (Isn't that a Tom Petty song? If not, it should be.)

[The Mister]

<font size=2>Probably is. I mean, even the losers get lucky sometimes.

[General Kenobi (ret.)]

Dantooine. They're on Dantooine.

[Patience]

all I know is most came from Arrakis. A desert planet with giant sand worms.

[Steve White]

EB,

Have we dropped our history from the syllabus?

Andy is a greater authority on actuarial history than I, but I will do my best, realizing that locations in cyberspace are somewhat tenuous.

Our true homeland is the area now controlled by the SOA forum. Once, discussion flowered there, and posters lived in peace, harmony, and anonymity. But a new regime took over, quashing public discourse, even creating two classes of citizens with the "Public Forum" and "Student Forum". It is now a desert. Though a few hardy souls still venture there, and some remember the golden period, only dreamers expect to regain what was once ours.

Our second homeland, the only homeland known by some, is that place known as eesite. It too permitted free exchange of ideas, until we were driven out by the evil Space Lobster.

This new space seems to my liking, though we may not be able to make it all ours. Already we see incursions from the Water Cooler. Thus far, they have come in peace, and have been welcomed. With their flirtacious ways, will the Rebel strain remain pure, or shall we become a melting pot, even stronger with the new blood?

Shouldn't this thread have been in the Political section?

[Johnny Yuma]

Steve said:"Thus far, they come in peace..."

In the movie "Mars Attack", the aliens also(supposedly) came in peace and then.....

[Mulan]

Johnny, keep it to yourself, man. This is a covert mission. Don't blow the WC incursionists cover.

[Gandalf]

Mulan,

You mean you were only pretending to be Aimless?

[Mr. Grim]

We will welcome the WC if they are no longer happy in their homeland due to some sort of restrictive controls on their freedoms. However, at the moment they are still visitors and we will require background checks.

[Oracle]

Some have admitted to being residents of planet valuation. That explains a lot.
:roll:

[Flora]

background checks, huh? I am curious what you uncovered about me - are these open files?

[Mulan]

I am an AIMLESS incursionist. (is "incursionist" a word - how many syllables? 4?)

Take me to your leader! LOL

[Gandalf]

Flora,

We interviewed moj for your background check.

Suffice it to say, you passed.

Normally files are available for inspection, but yours is still too hot to handle.

[Don Quijote]

SW -- In your history, do you distinguish between Compuserve and Allaire? Seems to me like there was one earlier migration in there.

[Steve White]

DQ - Fair point. Some hardy souls inhabited Compuserve before Allaire, so that could be called our first homeland.

But in that land we were taxed by an outside entity ($10 per month on top of basic Compuserve, perhaps), so the cyberspace was not really ours.

Other than the tax, it was a pleasant world, but our numbers would never have grown to our current size there.

Even in those earliest days, Traci was planning to become Queen of the Universe. And Andy Lang was posting volumes.

Steve

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[JMO]

One other item Steve omitted.

The Allaire homeland had been invaded by a sort of proto-Space Lobster which stole identities and posted neo-nazi death threats.
The current Desert was set up, in part, to keep that sort of unwelcome intruder out. But, in their zeal against terrorists, the SOA went much too far in restricting individual liberties.

The final straw for me was pulling out an existing software option which would have allowed registered Desert users to post selected messages without revealing their actual identities. It didn't help that they also decided that letterless Traci was not sufficiently well-qualified to post in the aridity of that forum.

[Guerilla poster]

Would we ever consider a return to the homeland or is the rift to big?

[Patience]

On 2001-11-16 16:26, Guerilla Poster wrote:
Would we ever consider a return to the homeland or is the rift to big?


you are free to go as you please. However, you may not go into the desert as the horse with no name, your identity will be revealed.

JMO, is one of those most adament about not posting there (the fact that she lurks just outside the top 10 posters not withstanding}

[Guerilla poster]

I am asking whether it is ever likely that the SOA will reconsider the registration issue and if they do will people return there or are we so happy with our new homeland and our fearless leader that we will never choose to return as a people to the Desert.

[Patience]

ah..

They did conduct a survey not too long ago and many put the anonimity (sp) as an issue. I hope it would be considered. I have seen no outcome announced.

registered users only, but aliases for posting. Those out of hand would be known by the powers that be.

I for one, do check there daily. However, feature wise I like it here better, with the exception of spell check.

I would follow the masses. Though I preferrably would break this addiction first.

[The Mister]

are we so happy with our new homeland and our fearless leader that we will never choose to return as a people to the Desert?<font size=2>"Yeah, Moses! We were better off as slaves! Where's our friggin promised land?"

"Aw, dangit. Now I'll have to make us all wander around in the desert for 40 years. Believe me, this is gonna hurt me more than it hurts you!"

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[oedipus rex]

:bump:

[Guerilla poster]

With the things posters write these days, it should be called the Rebel Outhouse.